Tangles
Tangles
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inc GSTTangles offer a precise way to identify structure in imprecise data. By grouping qualities that often occur together, they not only reveal clusters of things but also types of their qualities: types of political views, of texts, of health conditions, or of proteins. Tangles offer a new, structural, approach to artificial intelligence that can help us understand, classify, and predict complex phenomena.
This has become possible by the recent axiomatization of the mathematical theory of tangles, which has made it applicable far beyond its origin in graph theory: from clustering in data science and machine learning to predicting customer behaviour in economics; from DNA sequencing and drug development to text and image analysis. Such applications are explored here for the first time. Assuming only basic undergraduate mathematics, the theory of tangles and its potential implications are made accessible to scientists, computer scientists, and social scientists.
- Explains how the mathematical theory of tangles offers a structural approach to AI in all the empirical sciences
- Features examples from a wide range of disciplines
- Assumes no mathematics beyond a first-year undergraduate course, and the basic language of sets and functions
- Enables readers to test the tangle approach to AI in their own field, using the book with the software available free from the author
Reviews & endorsements
'As a sociologist, I am impressed by Diestel's innovative approach. Tangles open up completely new ways for empirical social research to gain insights that go beyond the usual generation of hypotheses and their verification or falsification. Tangles offer the opportunity to make the 'big sea of silent data' speak for itself.' Rolf von Lüde, Universität Hamburg
Product details
June 2024Adobe eBook Reader
9781009473330
0 pages
Not yet published - available from June 2024
Table of Contents
- Part I. Tangles – A New Paradigm for Clusters and Types:
- 1. The idea behind tangles
- 2. The notion of a tangle
- 3. The two main tangle theorems: an informal preview
- Part II. Tangles in Different Contexts – A Collection of Informal Examples:
- 4. Examples from the natural sciences
- 5. Examples from the social sciences
- 6. Examples from data science
- Part III. The Mathematics of Tangles – Concepts, Theorems, Algorithms:
- 7. The formal setup for tangles
- 8. Tangle theorems
- 9. Order functions
- 10. Choosing the feature system
- 11. Algorithms
- Part IV. Applying Tangles – Back to the Examples:
- 12. Applying tangles in the natural sciences
- 13. Applying tangles in the social sciences
- 14. Applying tangles in data science
- Notes
- References
- Symbol index
- Subject index.
