Distance between two latitude/longitudes

Posted on September 11, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Usually, the great circle distance is used to find the distance between two points on the Earth’s surface. This method is only an approximation (with errors being less than 0.5% according to Wikipedia) because the Earth is not a perfect sphere. Vincenty solutions of geodesics on the ellipsoid demonstrates superior approximations (errors less than 1mm), […]

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What is the math behind elliptic curve cryptography?

Posted on September 3, 2020. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

What is the math behind elliptic curve cryptography?

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Freely available programming books

Posted on September 26, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Freely available programming books This list was originally a clone of stackoverflow – List of Freely Available Programming Books by George Stocker. The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. It grew to become one of the most popular repositories on Github, with over 80,000 stars, over 4000 commits, […]

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A Concrete Introduction to Probability (using Python)

Posted on March 21, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

A Concrete Introduction to Probability In this notebook, we cover the basics of probability theory, and show how to implement the theory in Python 3.

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Mathematical Background for CS

Posted on May 25, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

by John F. Sowa This web page presents a brief summary of the following topics for students of Knowledge Representation, Logic, Linguistics, and Computer Science. Contents Sets, Bags, and Sequences Functions Lambda Calculus Graphs Relations Representing Relations by Graphs Lattices Propositional Logic Predicate Logic Axioms and Proofs Formal Grammars Game Graphs Model Theory

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Mathematical Background Notes for Computer Science

Posted on December 19, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

This web page is a revised and extended version of Appendix A from the book Conceptual Structures by John F. Sowa. It presents a brief summary of the following topics for students and general readers of that book and related books such as Knowledge Representation and books on logic, linguistics, and computer science. Sets, Bags, […]

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MathJax – Beautiful math in all browsers

Posted on October 31, 2012. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

MathJax is an open-source JavaScript display engine for LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notation that works in all modern browsers. www.mathjax.org

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