Paul Orland

Paul Orland is an entrepreneur, programmer, and math enthusiast. After a stint as a software engineer at Microsoft, he co-founded Tachyus, a start-up company building predictive analytics to optimize energy production in the oil and gas industry. As founding CTO of Tachyus, Paul led the productization of machine learning and physics-based modeling software, and later as CEO, he expanded the company to serve customers on five continents. Paul has a B.S. in math from Yale and an M.S. in physics from the University of Washington. His spirit animal is the lobster.

books by Paul Orland

Exploring Math for Programmers and Data Scientists

  • November 2020
  • ISBN 9781617299353
  • 91 pages

Exploring Math for Programmers and Data Scientists showcases chapters from three Manning books, chosen by author and master-of-math Paul Orland. You’ll start with a look at the nearest neighbor search problem, common with multidimensional data, and walk through a real-world solution for tackling it. Next, you’ll delve into a set of methods and techniques integral to Principal Component Analysis (PCA), an underlying technique in Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) for document retrieval. In the last chapter, you’ll work with digital audio data, using mathematical functions in different and interesting ways. Begin sharpening your competitive edge with the fun and fascinating math in this (free!) practical guide!

Math for Programmers

  • November 2020
  • ISBN 9781617295355
  • 688 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese

In Math for Programmers you’ll explore important mathematical concepts through hands-on coding. Filled with graphics and more than 200 exercises and mini-projects, this book unlocks the door to interesting–and lucrative!–careers in some of today’s hottest fields. As you tackle the basics of linear algebra, calculus, and machine learning, you’ll master the key Python libraries used to turn them into real-world software applications.