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Math in informatics and business

Arturo Vega
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How math is applied on informatics

Since a Little kid, I used to wonder how math is applied in Computing, Programing or Informatics.
With some research, no easy information is found. Computing can go extreme to extreme, from the point
of view where its useless to the point where it is your morning bread of each day. It is all related to the
aspect where we develop it. On this essay we will learn how math is applied on computers software,
influencing more on video and image edition software.

A computer is an electronic device which receives and processes data, most of the times a complex of
numbers. I compare computers with our brains and its commands are our extremities movements. Have
you ever heard of Flash, Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator? These are programs of image edition based on
vectors. A vector is a mathematic concept that has magnitude, direction and origin. Paint, Paint Brush
and Photoshop are similar too. These computer programs use mathematical matrices, an array of
numbers, symbols or expressions arranged in rows and columns, to represent images. To the computer,
those images are matrices full of numbers, which represent colors. To crop one picture you use
mathematical widths, when you draw something, reduce the brightness or add any other effect, the
software uses mathematical operations with the numbers that represent colors. Pixar, a company that
makes animated movies, makes them all through computer. Those animation movies in 3D use very
complex mathematical operations to calculate what the 3D model will show on screen. Pixar uses
differential and geometry concepts on 3D.

Moreover, Data Bases use lineal algebra to make query operations and updates. Microsoft Excel,
the most popular data base software relies on mathematical operation and calculus. Even though we only
see cells and rows, there is a more complex world behind that. The values we input into those cells can
be easily, mathematically transformed to graphics. Most of the statistics formulas are used in Microsoft
Excel to fulfill our needs.


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In conclusion, Math is essential to informatics and its computers to solve and give solutions,
easier, quicker and more efficient. I have briefly explained that math in informatics is not only used for
functions, numbers and Greek numbers, but also on analysis, structures and etc. With math you analyze
a problem, and then with the language of programming you get the best solution. As I stated before, the
use of math in this topic is very wide, because informatics has a lot of branches. But it is obviously
noticed that on each of these, plenty of math process are being solved.


















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(2013,06) Mathematics Vectors. BuenasTareas.com. Retrieved From:
http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Vectores-Matematica/27263858.html
(2012, 02) Is math necessary for programming?. Retrieved From:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/157354/is-mathematics-necessary-for-programming