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Friday, July 08, 2011

Two Conditions


Connect in two ways.

This shady question is in honor of a totally non-shady person with a more than passing genius for quizzing among other, more * brilliant *, things.

Answer: The euphoniously named Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (above) was the advisor of Ludwig Hess. The Jacobian matrix is the vector of the first derivatives of a scalar function of many variables. Hessian is the square matrix of the *second* derivatives.



1 comment:

shikhar said...

Calvin and Hobbes , eh ??

Friday, July 08, 2011

Two Conditions


Connect in two ways.

This shady question is in honor of a totally non-shady person with a more than passing genius for quizzing among other, more * brilliant *, things.

Answer: The euphoniously named Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (above) was the advisor of Ludwig Hess. The Jacobian matrix is the vector of the first derivatives of a scalar function of many variables. Hessian is the square matrix of the *second* derivatives.



1 comment:

shikhar said...

Calvin and Hobbes , eh ??