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As in the userboxes, plus:
"Doesn't matter" results
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Take a collection of properties; at least one of them must be false. In principle, all theorems can be rewritten in such a form, but some are more striking in this form. These are antinomies or (in Quine's terminology) veridical paradoxes.
Top algorithms of the 20th century
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Barry A. Cipra, The Best of the 20th Century: Editors Name Top 10 Algorithms, SIAM News, 33:4.
- Monte Carlo method, 1946
- simplex method for linear programming, 1947
- Krylov subspace iteration methods, 1950
- decompositional approach to matrix computations, 1951
- Fortran optimizing compiler, 1957
- QR algorithm, 1959–61
- Quicksort, 1962
- fast Fourier transform, 1965
- integer relation detection algorithm, 1977
- fast multipole algorithm, 1987
Among others:
- Chocho language
- Eggon language
- Manam language
- Shubi language
- Coatlán Zapotec language
- Landau set
- Peyton Young
- Duggan-Schwartz theorem
- John H. Smith (mathematician)
- Karatsuba algorithm
- Quasitransitive relation
- Saraveca
- Double exponential function
- ALL (complexity)
Total or near-total rewrites
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- Tradable (old)
- May's theorem (old)
- Dickman-de Bruijn function (old)
This section is for my note-taking and random links.
- Ramanujan papers and notebooks (see also [1])
- ISO 639-3 codes on SIL and ISO 639-2 codes on LoC
- Things I forget: Emotive conjugation, Jeffreys prior = pseudocount of 1/2 (see additive smoothing), smoothing via Newton–Cotes
- Location: Observable universe, Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, Virgo Supercluster, Local Volume, Local Sheet, Local Group, Milky Way, Orion Arm, Local Bubble, Local Interstellar Cloud, Solar System, Earth, North America