Inner product spaces are objects which live at the intersection of algebra and geometry, adding interesting (and natural) geometry to the well known vector spaces. These inner product spaces have many applications both in mathematics and in general. They appear in probability, combinatorics, number theory, algorithms, data science, physics and many more. Probably one of the most well known application is the famous Fourier transformations.
In these lectures we learn what are these inner product spaces, what are their properties and relations between different spaces, and how to use these inner products in many interesting and important applications.
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The video playlist on youtube.
| 0. Introduction and motivation Extra resources: * * Random walk dynamics | video | notes |
| 1. Inner product spaces definition | video | notes |
| 2. Norms | video | notes |
| 3. Unit balls Extra resources: * Unit balls in 2D (In geogebra) * Unit balls in 3D (requires GPU) | video | notes |
| 4. Perpendicular vectors | video | notes |
| 5. The Gram Schmidt process | video | notes |
| 6. Distance from subspace | video | notes |
| 7. Orthonormal basis Extra resources: * Approx * Orthonormal basis in 3D texturing (Hebrew video) | video | notes |
| 8. Inner products and probability | video | notes |
| 9. Programming – orthonormal sets | video | python notebook |
| 10. Inner products and graphs | video | notes |
| 11. Functionals | video | notes |
| 12. Adjoint Operator | video | notes |
| 13. Isometries | video | notes (soon) |
| 14. Reflections and rotations | video | notes (soon) |
| 15. The pseudoinverse and the least squares method | video | python notebook |
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