A bit of Math


Original: 02/01/20
Revised: no

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
- David Hilbert

Most of the material on our website is simple prose, and math is not necessary to understand it. Our aim is to ensure that the ideas presented here are accessible and not pretentious, but sometimes we do touch on a few technical issues and without some mathematical justification those issues will look a bit stale and unconvincing. The good thing is that the math necessary to understand the most important AI algorithms, especially deep neural networks, is at the high-school level and should be available to most people. For those few subjects that we need, mainly calculus and linear algebra, here are the essentials: