The Mathematics of the Uncertain - A Tribute to Pedro Gil (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This book is a tribute to Professor Pedro Gil, who created the Department of Statistics, OR and TM at the University of Oviedo, and a former President of the Spanish Society of Statistics and OR (SEIO). In more than eighty original contributions, it illustrates the extent to which Mathematics can help manage uncertainty, a factor that is inherent to real life. Today it goes without saying that, in order to model experiments and systems and to analyze related outcomes and data, it is necessary to consider formal ideas and develop scientific approaches and techniques for dealing with uncertainty. Mathematics is crucial in this endeavor, as this book demonstrates. As Professor Pedro Gil highlighted twenty years ago, there are several well-known mathematical branches for this purpose, including Mathematics of chance (Probability and Statistics), Mathematics of communication (Information Theory), and Mathematics of imprecision (Fuzzy Sets Theory and others). These branches often intertwine, since different sources of uncertainty can coexist, and they are not exhaustive. While most of the papers presented here address the three aforementioned fields, some hail from other Mathematical disciplines such as Operations Research; others, in turn, put the spotlight on real-world studies and applications. The intended audience of this book is mainly statisticians, mathematicians and computer scientists, but practitioners in these areas will certainly also find the book a very interesting read.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 142
Release date:	March 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Eduardo Gil • Eva Gil • Juan Gil • Maria Angeles Gil
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 59mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	917
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-73847-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics
LSN:	3-319-73847-X
Barcode:	9783319738475

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