In this video we will take an in depth look at the fast inverse square root and see where the mysterious number 0x5f3759df comes from. This algorithm became famous after id Software open sourced the engine for Quake III. On the way we will also learn about floating point numbers and newton's method.
This archive holds videos of past Fields lectures. Lectures are archived in two formats.The interactive format, viewed in a flash-player-enabled desktop web browser, allows you to zoom in and out on specific areas of the blackboards or screens (providing a viewing experience more like being present in the room). The static format, although it does not allow for zooming in to read small blackboard writing, is downloadable and compatible with a wide variety of desktop and mobile video players.
- Ref: cds.cern.ch/record/2700109
- This book contains 57 selected articles by Professor Radha Charan Gupta—a doyen of history of mathematics—written on a variety of important topics in Indian astronomy and mathematics, and deals with the bibliographical sketches of a few veteran historians of Indian mathematics
In my previous blog post, I explained how I take lecture notes using Vim and LaTeX. In this post, I’ll talk about how I draw figures for my notes using Inkscape and about my custom shortcut manager.Some examples First, let me show you some exam…
U. Martin Skrodzki, and K. Polthier. Proceedings of Bridges 2016: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture, page 481--484. Phoenix, Arizona, Tessellations Publishing, (2016)Available online at http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2016/bridges2016-481.html.
J. Berner, P. Grohs, G. Kutyniok, and P. Petersen. (2021)cite arxiv:2105.04026Comment: This review paper will appear as a book chapter in the book "Theory of Deep Learning" by Cambridge University Press.