The condition number of a matrix is at the heart of numerical
linear algebra. In the 1940s von-Neumann and Goldstine, motivated
by the problem of inverting, posed the following question:
(1) What is the condition number of a random matrix ?
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, School of Social Science
This lecture was part of the Institute for Advanced Study’s
celebration of its eightieth anniversary, and took place during the
events related to the Schools and Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
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Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor, School of Mathematics
This lecture was part of the Institute for Advanced Study’s
celebration of its eightieth anniversary, and took place during the
events related to the Schools of Mathematics and Natural
Sciences.
Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences
In this talk, Professor Matias Zaldarriaga
discusses the development of the modern study of cosmology,
beginning with the discovery of the expansion of the Universe by
Edwin Hubble, through current efforts to map the cosmic microwave
background...
