Lecture 5: Sums

July 22, 2025 194 Views

MIT 6.1200J Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2024
Instructor: Brynmor Chapman

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Sums are useful for recurrences, counting, probability, runtimes of algorithms, performances of large systems, machine learning, and much more! This lecture looks at ways to approximate sums through perturbation, ansatz method, and the integral method.

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Lecture 5: Sums

July 22, 2025 189 Views

MIT 6.1200J Mathematics for Computer Science, Spring 2024
Instructor: Brynmor Chapman

View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-1200j-mathematics-for-computer-science-spring-2024/
YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61VNvICqk2HXJTonnKgAc9d

Sums are useful for recurrences, counting, probability, runtimes of algorithms, performances of large systems, machine learning, and much more! This lecture looks at ways to approximate sums through perturbation, ansatz method, and the integral method.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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