About This Course
This course covers a wide range of mathematical tools that are helpful in data science. The course mostly focuses on Linear Algebra, Probability, Random Graphs and Statistics.
Learning Objectives
The linear algebra part covers concepts like vector space, inner product, change of basis, elementary row/column operations, rank, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, linear operators, Matrix representation, functions of operators, adjoint, Schur decomposition, Unitary, Hermitian, normal, singular value decomposition as well as Direct sum and tensor product of vector spaces.
The course then proceeds with basic concepts in probability such as law of large numbers, concentration of measure as well as topics in random graph theory. Basic concepts in statistics such as hypothesis testing are also reviewed.
Announcements
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Reading Material
Mandatory Reading
- Salman Beigi and Amin Gohari. Lecture Notes. Linear Algebra part in Quantum Information Theory: http://math.ipm.ir/~beigi/lecture_notes.html
- Blum, Avrim, John Hopcroft, and Ravindran Kannan. Foundations of Data Science. 2018. Available from CS.Cornell website.
Assessment and Feedback
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Marking Criteria
- 10% Homeworks
- 30% Midterm 1
- 30% Midterm 2
- 30% Final