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Gronwall's inequality (J. W. Robin)
The _right_ way of proving Gronwall's inequality.
mathematics  analysis 
january 2012 by mraginsky
[0809.3066] Some Notes on Standard Borel and Related Spaces (Chris Preston)
"These notes give an elementary approach to parts of the theory of standard Borel and analytic spaces." Useful stuff, seeing as how the machinery of analytic sets and standard Borel spaces is used to justify the manipulations with suprema over uncountable sets in the theory of empirical processes, as well as the reduction of partially observed MDPs in general spaces to fully observed MDPs on the space of hyperstates.
papers  to-read  mathematics  analysis  probability 
january 2010 by mraginsky
Marx, Mao and Mathematics: The Politics of Infinitesimals (by Joseph W. Dauben)
From the abstract: "[Marx] regarded questions about the foundations of the differential calculus as a "touchstone of the application of the method of materialist dialectics to mathematics." Nearly a century later, Chinese mathematicians explicitly linked Marxist ideology and the foundations of mathematics through a new program interpreting calculus in terms of nonstandard analysis."
mathematics  philosophy  politics  interesting  history  chinese 
may 2009 by mraginsky
254A: Topics in Ergodic Theory « What’s new
Terry Tao's course on ergodic theory. Mmmmmm, measure-preserving...
mathematics  lecture-notes  ergodic-theory 
december 2007 by mraginsky
Tutorial schedule
FOCS 2008 tutorials (Terry Tao on randomness in combinatorics; Dan Boneh on crypto; Dan Spielman on graph spectra)
lecture-notes  crypto  computer-science  mathematics 
november 2007 by mraginsky

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