Is Big Data Enough? A Reflection on the Changing Role of Mathematics in Applications

Authors

Domenico Napoletani, Chapman UniversityFollow
Marco Panza, Chapman UniversityFollow
Daniele C. Struppa, Chapman UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

The advent of computers, and especially high-performance computers, has had a dramatic impact on the way in which mathematics is done and even more on how mathematics is applied, as demonstrated by the growth of computational mathematics as well as what goes under the name of “experimental mathematics”, to which a journal is now devoted. More importantly, computers are now used to perform highly complex computations in order to apply mathematical models to a variety of empirical problems that could never be attacked otherwise.

Comments

This article was originally published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 61, issue 5, in 2014.

Recommended Citation

Napoletani, D., Panza, M., & Struppa, D. C. (2014). Is big data enough? A reflection on the changing role of mathematics in applications. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 61(5), 485-490. Retrieved from http://www.ams.org/notices/201405/rnoti-p485.pdf

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American Mathematical Society