2 papers
math.HO2024
A well-motivated proof that pi is irrational
Timothy Y. Chow
Ivan Niven's succinct proof that pi is irrational is easy to verify, but it begins with a magical formula that appears to come out of nowhere, and whose origin remains mysterious e…
cs.IT2024
Efficient Unbiased Sparsification
Leighton Barnes, Stephen Cameron, Timothy Chow +6
An unbiased -sparsification of a vector is a random vector with mean that has at most nonzero coordinates. Unbiased sparsificat…