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Author: Peter Grindrod (Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.714kg
ISBN: 9780198725091
ISBN 10: 0198725094
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 27 November 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
There is a great need for this book, which connects the typical analytical problems that organizations face with the underlying maths and statistics to solve them. Grindrod communicates his deep expertise ... for executives who want to understand the math underlying their businesses, and the quant geeks who want to know the business problems they are capable of addressing * Thomas H. Davenport, Babson College, MIT Fellow, Author of Competing on Analytics and Big Data @ Work * It is an essential read for any mathematician * Alan Stevens, Mathematics Today *
It is an essential read for any mathematician * Alan Stevens, Mathematics Today * There is a great need for this book, which connects the typical analytical problems that organizations face with the underlying maths and statistics to solve them. Grindrod communicates his deep expertise ... for executives who want to understand the math underlying their businesses, and the quant geeks who want to know the business problems they are capable of addressing * Thomas H. Davenport, Babson College, MIT Fellow, Author of Competing on Analytics and Big Data @ Work *
There is a great need for this book, which connects the typical analytical problems that organizations face with the underlying maths and statistics to solve them. Grindrod communicates his deep expertise ... for executives who want to understand the math underlying their businesses, and the quant geeks who want to know the business problems they are capable of addressing Thomas H. Davenport, Babson College, MIT Fellow, Author of Competing on Analytics and Big Data @ Work
Author Information
Peter Grindrod researches a range of topics in analytics for customer-facing industries and in particular for the digital society. He is in an almost unique position of having experience within commercial settings as well as within academia. He is a former President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, member of the EPSRC and Chair of the EPSRC's User Panel. He authored Patterns and Waves (OUP 1991, 2nd edn 1996) and has been awarded a CBE for his contribution to mathematics R&D. In 1998 he was co-founder and Technical Director of a start-up company, Numbercraft Limited, supplying analytics services and software to retailers and consumer goods manufacturers. He is a co-founder of Cignifi Inc, a Boston-based company that uses mobile phone records to provide behaviour based credit referencing for pre pay customers in emerging economies. He is a founder of Counting Lab Ltd, a UK-based start-up translating state of the art mathematics into prototype products and services.
