Useful Tools

Just found a list of good tools suggested in Nuit Blanche. The list may be a bit dated but many of the tools are still very useful.

A not so rigorous introduction to finite fields

Field is meant to extend the most basic set of mathematical operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division beyond real number. As subtraction and division are really inverse operations of addition and multiplication, we actually only need to consider the latter two. The set of all real numbers are closed under addition and multiplication. In the…

About method of types

Question: I was confused on the proof of Theorem 11.1.3 in yersterday’s class. And I am still confused after review the book and your notes many many times. I think that one of key points of Theorem 11.1.3 is that, under any source distribution $latex Q(x)$, the upper bound and the lower bound is true…