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Wolfram. They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street. Basics - Gut Instinct’s Surprising Role in Math. Tikhonov regularization. When the following problem is not well posed (either because of non-existence or non-uniqueness of where may be ill-conditioned or singular).

Tikhonov regularization

In the latter case this is no better than the original problem. In order to give preference to a particular solution with desirable properties, the regularization term is included in this minimization: for some suitably chosen Tikhonov matrix, . TNT Home Page. An Intuitive Explanation of Fourier Theory. Steven Lehar slehar@cns.bu.edu Fourier theory is pretty complicated mathematically. But there are some beautifully simple holistic concepts behind Fourier theory which are relatively easy to explain intuitively. Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny. On the evening of June 20th, several hundred physicists, including a Nobel laureate, assembled in an auditorium at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing for a lecture by the Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau.

Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny

In the late nineteen-seventies, when Yau was in his twenties, he had made a series of breakthroughs that helped launch the string-theory revolution in physics and earned him, in addition to a Fields Medal—the most coveted award in mathematics—a reputation in both disciplines as a thinker of unrivalled technical power. Yau had since become a professor of mathematics at Harvard and the director of mathematics institutes in Beijing and Hong Kong, dividing his time between the United States and China. His lecture at the Friendship Hotel was part of an international conference on string theory, which he had organized with the support of the Chinese government, in part to promote the country’s recent advances in theoretical physics. Grigory Perelman is indeed reclusive. Annals of Mathematics: Manifold Destiny. A First Course in Linear Algebra (A Free Textbook) Ulam spiral. Ulam spiral of size 200×200.

Black dots represent prime numbers. Diagonal, vertical, and horizontal lines with a high density of prime numbers are clearly visible. The Ulam spiral, or prime spiral (in other languages also called the Ulam Cloth) is a simple method of visualizing the prime numbers that reveals the apparent tendency of certain quadratic polynomials to generate unusually large numbers of primes.

MimeTeX quickstart. Announcement: If latex is installed on your server then see mathTeX , the successor to mimeTeX. It's based on real LaTeX and renders higher quality images than mimeTeX. If latex is not available on your server, continue using mimeTeX. Copyright © 2002-2011, John Forkosh Associates, Inc. email: john@forkosh.com —— Important Notice —— This page contains more information than you'll probably need to read. LatexRender & TeX Converter. TEX Converter is for 32 bit Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP Programs that you'll need MiKTEX TeX4ht Useful book The Latex Web Companion by Michael Goosens and Sebastian Rahtz Amazon USA Amazon UK Internet Bookshop.

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Scientific Library. This file documents the GNU Scientific Library (GSL), a collection of numerical routines for scientific computing.

Scientific Library

It corresponds to release 1.16+ of the library. Please report any errors in this manual to bug-gsl@gnu.org. More information about GSL can be found at the project homepage, Printed copies of this manual can be purchased from Network Theory Ltd at The money raised from sales of the manual helps support the development of GSL. Whats Special About This Number? What's Special About This Number?

Whats Special About This Number?

If you know a distinctive fact about a number not listed here, please e-mail me. primes graphs digits sums of powers bases combinatorics powers/polygonal Fibonacci geometry repdigits algebra perfect/amicable pandigital matrices divisors games/puzzles. Welcome to CalcEnstein - The Ultimate Web. The Mystery Of The Ale. TNT Documentation Page. Theme and Variations (Netscape version) Starmaze Intro. Before I can explain my decades-long quest to map the starmaze I must acquaint you with a small puzzle.

Starmaze Intro

You will see a simple pattern consisting of circles and squares. Begin by clicking on the square in the center. The pattern will change. Keep clicking. Spidron System & Main Page. PORT.hu.

Spidron System & Main Page

Scilab Home Page. Play with PI. Untitled. [P] failure functions - another example by akdevarajApr 14 Let our definition of a failure be a non - Devarajnumber which is not a Carmichael number ( see A104017 on OEIS ).Let the mother function be 2^n + 3113.

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Then n = 16 + 42*k is a failure function ). [P] Failure functions - role of by akdevarajApr 13 failure functions play an important role in proving a conjecture indirectly. See sketch proof. Numerical Recipes in C. NumberSpiral.com. Mathematical Symbol. By Douglas Weaver Mathematics Coordinator, Taperoo High School with the assistance of Anthony D. Smith Computing Studies teacher, Taperoo High School. Introduction. Math Link. Modern Algebra. BEATCALC. Main Page - Knot Atla. LAPACK Users Guide.

How to Read Mathematic. This article is part of my new book Rediscovering Mathematics, now in paperback!

How to Read Mathematic

How to Read Mathematics by Shai Simonson and Fernando Gouvea. Golden ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclo. Line segments in the golden ratio In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.

Golden ratio - Wikipedia, the free encyclo

The figure on the right illustrates the geometric relationship. Expressed algebraically, for quantities a and b with a > b > 0, The golden ratio is also called the golden section (Latin: sectio aurea) or golden mean.[1][2][3] Other names include extreme and mean ratio,[4] medial section, divine proportion, divine section (Latin: sectio divina), golden proportion, golden cut,[5] and golden number.[6][7][8] Geometric Paper Folding: Dr. David Huffman. Nov 1996 David Huffman has been creating some very complex and original folded structures. He works with both straight and curved folds, using mathematical techniques that he has developed over many years.

Mr. Huffman teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Here are three examples of his work. The piece above was created by 4 parabolic curved folds that meet in a central square. Folding Paper in Half Twelve Time. College Algebra Homepage. If you need help in college algebra, you have come to the right place. Clickable Map of Mathematic. Category Theory.

Ars Mathematica. Approximation theory - Wikipedia, the free. American Mathematical Society: Mathematic. A Different Kind of Multiplication. It is often said that an important advantage of the decimal notation over the Roman one is that makes multiplication of numbers much easier. Adding CLXXVII to XXIII may be relatively straightforward--but how about multiplying the two?