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The theory of random real numbers is exceedingly well-developed, and fascinating from many points of view. It is also quite challenging mathematically. The present notes are intended as no more than a gateway to the larger theory. They…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Daniel Osherson , Scott Weinstein

This is an updated version of the lectures notes for a course on condensed mathematics taught in the summer term 2019 at the University of Bonn. The material presented is joint work with Dustin Clausen. This is intended as a stable citable…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Peter Scholze

These are lecture notes for a one semester introductory course I gave at Indiana University. The goal was to make this exposition as clear and elementary as possible. A particular emphasis is given on examples involving SU(1,1). These notes…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Matvei Libine

Probability metrics constitute an important tool in probability theory and statistics \cite{DKS91}, \cite{R91}, \cite{Z83} as they are specific metrics on spaces of random variables which, by satisfying an extra condition, concord well with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Ben Berckmoes , Bob Lowen

This in an introduction to free probability theory, covering the basic combinatorial and analytic theory, as well as the relations to random matrices and operator algebras. The material is mainly based on the two books of the lecturer, one…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Roland Speicher

This is a self-contained set of lecture notes covering various aspects of the theory of open quantum system, at a level appropriate for a one-semester graduate course. The main emphasis is on completely positive maps and master equations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Daniel A. Lidar

In literature, the central limit theorems for the product of sums of various random variables have studied. The purpose of this note is to show that this kind of results are corollary of the invariance principle.

Probability · Mathematics 2008-12-19 Li-Xin Zhang , Wei Huang

A didactical survey of the foundations of Algorithmic Information Theory. These notes are short on motivation, history and background but introduce some of the main techniques and concepts of the field. The "manuscript" has been evolving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Peter Gacs

A popular scientific contribution should not contradict any established facts and ought to be understandable. I complied with both these requirements and am offering a sufficiently full introduction to probability theory. Furthermore, I…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Oscar Sheynin

These notes provide an introductory exposition of the Seiberg-Witten gauge theory. They collect the material presented in a series of seminars given by the author at the University of Milano.

dg-ga · Mathematics 2008-02-03 M. Marcolli

These notes survey and explore an emerging method, which we call the low-degree method, for predicting and understanding statistical-versus-computational tradeoffs in high-dimensional inference problems. In short, the method posits that a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Dmitriy Kunisky , Alexander S. Wein , Afonso S. Bandeira

Lecture notes accompanying an 8hr hour mini-course on SPDE given at Bo\u{g}azi\c{c}i University, Istanbul in June/July 2025. They are based on earlier notes of a shorter mini-course given at the University of Oxford in 2021. The main focus…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Avi Mayorcas

These are lectures notes for the introductory graduate courses on geometric complexity theory (GCT) in the computer science department, the university of Chicago. Part I consists of the lecture notes for the course given by the first author…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-08-02 Ketan D. Mulmuley , Milind Sohoni

This is the preliminary version of a book on Coulomb and Riesz gases that grew out of a set of notes written for graduate courses taught at the Courant Institute, at the Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure, and at the 2024 Saint-Flour Probability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Sylvia Serfaty

Coulomb gases are special probability distributions, related to potential theory, that appear at many places in pure and applied mathematics and physics. In these short expository notes, we focus on some models, ideas, and structures. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Djalil Chafaï

These lecture notes were written with the aim to provide an accessible though technically solid introduction to the logic of systematical analyses of statistical data to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, in particular in the…

Applications · Statistics 2019-09-02 Henk van Elst

This lecture note is intended to prepare early-year master's and PhD students in data science or a related discipline with foundational ideas in machine learning. It starts with basic ideas in modern machine learning with classification as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Kyunghyun Cho

Effective bounds on the union probability are well known to be beneficial in the analysis of stochastic problems in many areas, including probability theory, information theory, statistical communications, computing and operations research.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Jun Yang , Fady Alajaji , Glen Takahara

The goal of these lecture notes is to introduce the developing research area of gravitational-wave phenomenology. In more concrete terms, they are meant to provide an overview of gravitational-wave sources and an introduction to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lee Samuel Finn

I am presenting a first-ever scientific collection of short sayings on probability and statistics expressed by most various men of science, many classics included, from antiquity to Kepler to our time. Quite understandably, the reader will…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Oscar Sheynin