Math3ma

Learning to write math is learning to have clear ideas. Wouldn’t it be a shame to deprive yourself of that? By writing math yourself, you’ll get to understand why it is written in such a bizarre formalism, in this language made for robots: there’s really no other choice. To demonstrate, we’ll return to another of our favorite examples: the concept

Mathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute.

In June 1983, Alexander Grothendieck sits down to write the preface to a mathematical manuscript called Pursuing Stacks . He is concerned by what he sees as a tacit disdain for the more “feminine side” of mathematics (which is related to what I’m calling the solitary creative state) in favor of the “hammer and chisel” of the finished theorem. By el

Sometimes we want to analyze clusters of data (K-means) or reduce the dimensions or features in play (manifold learning) or convert from one type of data to another (autoencoding).