EPFL's "Optimization for Machine Learning". PDF (2023): Video (2021): (audio generated by NotebookLM)

What a gem 💎 written by a math grandee. #book #math

The Russian mathematical masterpiece which shaped scientific career of many first-rate mathematicians.

"Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all."

Unlike graph theory, which models binary connectivity between brain regions and disregards the spatial topography, Neural field theory models the brain functional connectome as a continuous field and the geometric modes of the cortex can help to reconstruct them / in the Geometric Resonance Model (GRM) the eigen modes are used to attenuate the contribution of high order modes / not constrained by the resolution of a parcellated atlas Francis Normand @OHBM #OHBM2025 @AFornito