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most citedAn international campaign of the 19th century to determine the solar parallax - The US Naval expedition to the southern hemisphere 1849 - 1852

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cs.LG2022

Benign Autoencoders

Semyon Malamud, Teng Andrea Xu, Antoine Didisheim

Recent progress in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on efficient data representations, often featuring encoder-decoder architectures. We formalize the mathematical pr…

econ.GN2021

Optimal Transport of Information

Semyon Malamud, Anna Cieslak, Andreas Schrimpf

We study the general problem of Bayesian persuasion (optimal information design) with continuous actions and continuous state space in arbitrary dimensions. First, we show that wit…

astro-ph.IM2021

The star catalogue of Wilhelm IV, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel: Accuracy of the catalogue and of the measurements

Frank Verbunt, Andreas Schrimpf

We analyse a manuscript star catalogue by Wilhem IV, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel, from 1586. From measurements of altitudes and of angles between stars, given in the catalogue, we f…

astro-ph.IM2021

The star catalogue of Wilhelm IV, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel

Andreas Schrimpf, Frank Verbunt

Near the end of the 16th century Wilhelm IV, Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel, set up an observatory with the main goal to increase the accuracy of stellar positions primarily for use in…

physics.hist-ph2019★ 1 cited

Research on asteroids of Christian Ludwig Gerling and his students in the nineteenth century

Julia Remchin, Andreas Schrimpf

One of the mayor topics in astronomy at the beginning of the 19th century was the interpretation of the observations of the first asteroids. In 1810 Christian Ludwig Gerling at the…

physics.hist-ph2016

Hans Wolter - a pioneer of applied optics

Andreas Schrimpf

Applied optics was one of the major topics Hans Walter was engaged in during his scientific life. He contributed to the understanding of optical properties of thin films, which cou…