Communications, Navigation and Mathematics: Part I - Speech Communications

摘要

This article is based on a public lecture given by the author at the University of Reading on 13 November 1997 to celebrate his appointment as a Visiting Industrial Professor. The material has remained in his files and unpublished until now. The primary aim of the lecture was to demonstrate that the basic mathematics which underpins one technology (e.g. digital speech communications) can often be applied to a quite different technology (e.g. navigation systems). This article follows the basic theme of the lecture, but includes more of the mathematics. This is the first part of the article, Speech Communications, the second part on Navigation will appear in the next issue of Mathematics Today.