This book is about the mathematical foundations of data science. 1. Introduction 2. Curses, Blessings, and Surprises in High Dimensions 3. Singular Value Decomposition and Principal Component Analysis 4. Linear Regression and Regularization 5. G
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Fields Medal 2026 list leaked, revealing Peking University alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng as winners. Historic first for Chinese mathematicians in the same e
A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations

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For $1<p\leq q$ we show that the Poisson semigroup $e^{-t\sqrt{-Δ}}$ on the $n$-sphere is hypercontractive from $L^{p}$ to $L^{q}$ in dimensions $n \leq 3$ if and only if $e^{-t\sqrt{n}} \leq \sqrt{\frac{p-1}{q-1}}$. We also show that the equivalence fail
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