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    Applied Mathematics and Statistics – With Thesis

    MATH 537 | Course Introduction and Application Information

    Course Name
    Mathematics and Artifical Intelligence
    Code
    Semester
    Theory
    (hour/week)
    Application/Lab
    (hour/week)
    Local Credits
    ECTS
    MATH 537
    Fall/Spring
    3
    0
    3
    7.5

    Prerequisites
    None
    Course Language
    English
    Course Type
    Elective
    Course Level
    Second Cycle
    Mode of Delivery -
    Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course Problem Solving
    Lecture / Presentation
    National Occupation Classification -
    Course Coordinator
    Course Lecturer(s)
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    Course Objectives This course aims to teach the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and to enable students to understand and apply modern AI models by implementing these foundations in the Python environment.
    Learning Outcomes

    The students who succeeded in this course;

    • Explain mathematical foundations of AI methods.
    • Apply linear algebra techniques in data analysis and model construction.
    • Use probabilistic and statistical concepts in ML models.
    • Analyze optimization algorithms.
    • Develop basic ML models and simple neural networks.
    • Evaluate ethical and security risks of AI models.
    Course Description This course provides a detailed and applied introduction to the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence. Students learn the mathematical structure of linear algebra, probability and statistics, optimization, machine learning, and basic deep learning, and they implement these concepts using Python.
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    Course Category

    Core Courses
    Major Area Courses
    Supportive Courses
    Media and Management Skills Courses
    Transferable Skill Courses

     

    WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

    Week Subjects Related Preparation
    1 Introduction to AI; the role of mathematical foundations; data types; the machine learning workflow. Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig – Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Ch.1–2 Bishop – Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Introduction Python: McKinney – Python for Data Analysis, Ch.1
    2 Linear Algebra I: vectors, matrix operations, norms, inner product spaces. Gilbert Strang – Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Ch.1–2 Goodfellow et al. – Deep Learning, Linear Algebra Appendix NumPy: array operations
    3 Linear Algebra II: eigenvalues/eigenvectors, SVD, mathematical foundations of PCA. Strang – Introduction to Linear Algebra, Ch.6–7 Shlens – A Tutorial on PCA* sklearn PCA
    4 Probability: basic concepts, distributions, conditional probability, Bayes’ Rule. Blitzstein & Hwang – Introduction to Probability, Ch.1–4 Murphy – Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective, Ch.2
    5 Statistical learning: estimation, bias–variance trade-off, confidence intervals. James et al. – An Introduction to Statistical Learning, Ch.2–3 Hastie et al. – The Elements of Statistical Learning, Ch.2
    6 Optimization I: convexity, derivation of gradient descent. Boyd & Vandenberghe –Convex Optimization, Ch.1–2 Ruder – An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms
    7 Optimization II: learning rate, momentum, regularization. Goodfellow – Deep Learning, Ch.7 Bishop – Pattern Recognition and ML, Regularization Section
    8 Mathematics of linear regression and logistic regression. ISLR – Ch.3–4 Murphy – MLPP, Regression Chapters
    9 Classification: SVM optimization problem, margin analysis. Hastie et al. – The Elements of Statistical Learning, SVM Chapter Vapnik – Statistical Learning Theory
    10 Clustering and dimensionality reduction: K-means, t-SNE, UMAP. ISLR – Unsupervised Learning Ch. 12 van der Maaten & Hinton – Visualizing Data using t-SNE
    11 Introduction to neural networks: perceptron mathematics, MLP architecture. Goodfellow – Deep Learning, Ch.6 Nielsen – Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Ch.1–2
    12 Backpropagation: chain rule and derivative computations. Goodfellow – Ch.6.5 Nielsen – Backpropagation Chapter
    13 Mathematics of NLP: word embeddings, cosine similarity, attention mechanism. Vaswani et al. – Attention is All You Need Jurafsky & Martin – Speech and Language Processing, Embeddings Chapter
    14 Ethics, safety, adversarial examples, and model bias. Goodfellow – Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples O'Neil – Weapons of Math Destruction Introduction
    15 Semester Review
    16 Final Exam

     

    Course Notes/Textbooks

    Russell, S. J., & Norvig, P. (2021). Artificial intelligence: A modern approach (4th ed.). Pearson. ISBN: 978-0134610993

    Bishop, C. M. (2006). Pattern recognition and machine learning. Springer. ISBN: 978-0387310732

    Blitzstein, J. K., & Hwang, J. (2019). Introduction to probability (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1138369917

    Boyd, S., & Vandenberghe, L. (2004). Convex optimization. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521833783

    Goodfellow, I., Bengio, Y., & Courville, A. (2016). Deep learning. MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262035613

    Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The elements of statistical learning: Data mining, inference, and prediction (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN: 978-0387848570

    James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2013). An introduction to statistical learning: With applications in R. Springer. ISBN: 978-1461471370

    Jurafsky, D., & Martin, J. H. (2009). Speech and language processing: An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall. ISBN: 978-0131873216

    Strang, G. (2006). Linear algebra and its applications (4th ed.). Brooks/Cole. ISBN: 978-0030105678

    Ruder, S. (2016). An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04747

    Murphy, K. P. (2012). Machine learning: A probabilistic perspective. MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262018029

    Vapnik, V. N. (1998). The nature of statistical learning theory (2nd ed.). Springer. ISBN: 978-0387987804

    van der Maaten, L., & Hinton, G. (2008). Visualizing data using t-SNE. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9, 2579–2605

    Nielsen, M. (2015). Neural networks and deep learning. Online book. http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com

    Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, L., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

    O’Neil, C. (2016). Weapons of math destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. Crown. ISBN: 978-0553418811

    McKinney, W. (2022). Python for data analysis: Data wrangling with pandas, NumPy, and Jupyter (3rd ed.). O’Reilly Media. ISBN: 978-1098104030

     
    Suggested Readings/Materials

    Shalev-Shwartz, S., & Ben-David, S. (2014). Understanding machine learning: From theory to algorithms. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1107057135

     

    EVALUATION SYSTEM

    Semester Activities Number Weigthing
    Participation
    Laboratory / Application
    Field Work
    Quizzes / Studio Critiques
    Portfolio
    Homework / Assignments
    1
    40
    Presentation / Jury
    1
    10
    Project
    1
    20
    Seminar / Workshop
    Oral Exams
    Midterm
    Final Exam
    1
    30
    Total

    Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
    3
    70
    Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
    1
    30
    Total

    ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

    Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
    Theoretical Course Hours
    (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
    16
    3
    48
    Laboratory / Application Hours
    (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
    16
    0
    Study Hours Out of Class
    14
    5
    70
    Field Work
    0
    Quizzes / Studio Critiques
    0
    Portfolio
    0
    Homework / Assignments
    1
    10
    10
    Presentation / Jury
    1
    10
    10
    Project
    1
    33
    33
    Seminar / Workshop
    0
    Oral Exam
    0
    Midterms
    0
    Final Exam
    1
    54
    54
        Total
    225

     

    COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

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    To be able to demonstrate independent and critical thinking in Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

     
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    To be able to define problems in Applied Mathematics/Statistics and verify whether they are mathematically/statistically consistent.

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    To be able to analyse and solve real life problems using applied methods and interdisciplinary approach of Mathematics/Statistics.

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    To be able to independently conduct, conclude, and report on specialized research in Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

     
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    To be able to efficiently use national and international resources, for staying updated in the field, communicating with colleagues, and following the related literature.

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    To be able to develop proficiency in using computer software widely utilized in the fields of Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

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    To be able to evaluate solution processes efficiently using mathematical reasoning and modeling in order to contribute to the solutions of social and scientific problems.

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    To be able to synthesize theoretical frameworks with practical applications through mathematical and statistical methods.

     
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    To be able to develop strategies, policies and plans for problems and research areas in Applied Mathematics/Statistics in order to interpret the results and translate them into practice.

     
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    To be able to translate key topics, events, and phenomena in Applied Mathematics and Statistics into the context of other scientific disciplines.

     
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    To be able to engage in lifelong learning by continuously updating and improving knowledge and skills in Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

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    *1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest


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