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Examples of unexpected mathematical images

188 points by mathgenius 10y ago

StClaire 10y ago
The Terry Tao was an awesome surprise I have two questions 1) how important is Terry Tao and his group to compressed sensing? 2) I'm interested in signal processing and compressed sensing. How can I get into it with a math background instead of an EE background? Edit sorry I posted this comment three times. I pushed the comment button on my phone and nothing happened so I assumed nothing happened
- joatmon-snoo 10y ago
  Terry Tao is the Erdos of this era - he was competing in the International Mathematics Olympiad when his peers were in middle school [1] and is now sort of the person to go to when your work has stalled [2]. It's ridiculous. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood [2] "If you're stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao" - Charles Fefferman
- ReverseCold 10y ago
  If you're using the materialistic hacker app like I am then the flow is - submit - send - close window So if send takes forever you press the button again, which doesn't disable itself.
  - StClaire 10y ago
    Good to know. I just visit the website but I'll check out that app
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- whyever 10y ago
  I can recommend the paper by David Donoho from 2014: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~donoho/Reports/2004/CompressedSensing091604.pdf https://statweb.stanford.edu/~donoho/Reports/2004/Compressed...
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q_revert 10y ago
a spectacularly unbiased example, multiple measurements, experimental and simulated, of the same thing :) http://imgur.com/a/m2GRZ http://imgur.com/a/m2GRZ
noobermin 10y ago
I'm going to make a claim: almost all mathematical "images" (2D graphical visualizations) are unexpected. This is because the set of expectations is most likely countable and the set of all mathematical images is not.
joshschreuder 10y ago
From the title I expected to see the Batman curve http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BatmanCurve.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BatmanCurve.html
LeoPanthera 10y ago
I am surprised that the Mandelbrot Set is not here.
thatsadude 10y ago
Donoho proposed basics pursuit 10 years before it was proved in his joint work with Terence Tao.

188 points by mathgenius 10y ago

The Terry Tao was an awesome surprise I have two questions 1) how important is Terry Tao and his group to compressed sensing? 2) I'm interested in signal processing and compressed sensing. How can I get into it with a math background instead of an EE background? Edit sorry I posted this comment three times. I pushed the comment button on my phone and nothing happened so I assumed nothing happened

joatmon-snoo 10y ago
Terry Tao is the Erdos of this era - he was competing in the International Mathematics Olympiad when his peers were in middle school [1] and is now sort of the person to go to when your work has stalled [2]. It's ridiculous. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Childhood [2] "If you're stuck on a problem, then one way out is to interest Terence Tao" - Charles Fefferman
ReverseCold 10y ago
If you're using the materialistic hacker app like I am then the flow is - submit - send - close window So if send takes forever you press the button again, which doesn't disable itself.
- StClaire 10y ago
  Good to know. I just visit the website but I'll check out that app
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whyever 10y ago
I can recommend the paper by David Donoho from 2014: https://statweb.stanford.edu/~donoho/Reports/2004/CompressedSensing091604.pdf https://statweb.stanford.edu/~donoho/Reports/2004/Compressed...

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q_revert 10y ago

a spectacularly unbiased example, multiple measurements, experimental and simulated, of the same thing :) http://imgur.com/a/m2GRZ http://imgur.com/a/m2GRZ

noobermin 10y ago

I'm going to make a claim: almost all mathematical "images" (2D graphical visualizations) are unexpected. This is because the set of expectations is most likely countable and the set of all mathematical images is not.

joshschreuder 10y ago

From the title I expected to see the Batman curve http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BatmanCurve.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BatmanCurve.html

LeoPanthera 10y ago

I am surprised that the Mandelbrot Set is not here.

thatsadude 10y ago

Donoho proposed basics pursuit 10 years before it was proved in his joint work with Terence Tao.