Step into the World of Mathematics. Math Is Beautiful and Belongs to All of Us

Mathematics—Our Invisible Friend
	What Is in the Book?
Contents
1: My Adventures in the World of Mathematics
	1.1	 Primary School
	1.2	 High School
	1.3	 Engineering Studies at HUT
	1.4	 Thesis and Medical Imaging Research
	1.5	 As an Industrial Developer
2: Examples of Mathematical Models
	2.1	 How to Model Gender?
	2.2	 Natural Numbers Model Quantities
	2.3	 A Model for Prices in an Online Store
	2.4	 The Flight of a Football on PlayStation
	2.5	 Bringing Light to a Virtual Room
	2.6	 How to Build a Mathematical Model
	References
3: The Big Models of Earth and Space
	3.1	 Weather Forecasts, Atmospheric Models and the Butterfly Effect
		Dividing the World Into Boxes
		Determining the Initial Conditions
		The Flow Model and the Physics Model
		The Butterfly Effect
	3.2	 Modelling Climate Change
		From a Weather Model to a Climate Model
		The Sources of Errors in Models
		The Force of Averages in Predicting Climate Change
	3.3	 How to Observe the Collisions of Black Holes?
	3.4	 Mathematics and the Wicked Problems of Mankind
	References
4: How Mathematics Helps Doctors
	4.1	 Why Should Children Be Vaccinated?
		Alternative 1
		Alternative 2
		Alternative 3
	4.2	 The Fat Lottery and Predictions of Weight
	4.3	 Traditional Tomography
		Ordinary X-Ray Imaging
		How Tomography Works
		How to Calculate the Tomographic Model from the X-Rays?
		A History of Tomography
	4.4	 The New Low-Radiation Tomography
		An Inverse Problem and Two Penalties
		Using Optimization to Find the Smallest Penalty
		A Low-Radiation Dental X-Ray Device
		A Tomography that Uses Radiotracers
5: Is Humanity Too Just Mathematics?
	5.1	 A Poor Model Produces Poor Results
	5.2	 The High Points of AI
		A Self-Taught Chess Machine
		A Cat Recognition Program
		Modelling the Human Tastes for Art
	5.3	 Will Computers Replace Artists?
	References
6: Mathematics Belongs to Everyone
	6.1	 The Myth of Genius Is Destructive
	6.2	 The Properties of an Applied Modeller
	6.3	 A Challenge for Raising Enthusiasm: let’s Bring Everybody to the World of Mathematics!