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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sonneberg Sky Patrol Archive - Photometric Analysis
Milan Spasovic, Christian Dersch, Christian Lange +2
The Sonneberg Sky Patrol archive so far has not yet been analyzed systematically. In this paper we present first steps towards an automated photometric analysis aiming at the searc…
Die Physikalische Sammlung (Physical Collection)
Andreas Schrimpf
At the end of the 17th century, the collection was established through the acquisition of Leiden instrumentmaker Musschenbroek's collection. Its aim was to demonstrate physical phe…
Die Gerling Sternwarte (Gerling Astronomical Observatory)
Andreas Schrimpf
Christian Ludwig Gerling's 1817 appointment as Professor for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy resulted in the foundation of the Mathematical and Physical Institute of the Philipp…
The first measurement of the deflection of the vertical in longitude -- The figure of the earth in the early 19th century
Andreas Schrimpf
During the summer of 1837 Christian Ludwig Gerling, a former student of Carl Friedrich Gauß's, organized the world wide first determination of the deflection of the vertical in lon…
An international campaign of the 19th century to determine the solar parallax - The US Naval expedition to the southern hemisphere 1849 - 1852
Andreas Schrimpf
In 1847 Christian Ludwig Gerling, Marburg (Germany), suggested the solar parallax to be determined by measuring the position of Venus close to its inferior conjunction, especially…