The first edition of this book won the 8th Golden Book Award of the National Library. The second edition adds big data and machine learning. In the third edition, three new chapters are added to introduce three very hot topics: the mathematical basis of blockchain, the principle of quantum communication and the mathematical limit of artificial intelligence.

In the creation of paper books, the author almost rewrote all the articles, in order to make the profound mathematical principles more popular and easy to understand, so that non-professional readers can also appreciate the charm of mathematics. What readers learn through concrete examples is the way of thinking-how to simplify the complex, how to solve engineering problems with mathematics, and how to think about innovation without thinking.