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Nick Alger
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Researcher at the Oden Institute (UT Austin) working on numerical methods for PDE-constrained optimization and inverse problems

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Normalizable wavefunction that does not vanish at infinity
May 9, 2017
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Path integral vs. measure on infinite dimensional space
Dec 14, 2010
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Physical meaning of Legendre transformation
May 2, 2011
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How did Newton find out gravity is proportional to the product of two masses?
Jun 1, 2015
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How to interpret the derivative of the Dirac delta potential?
Jan 24, 2015
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Discontinuities and nondifferentiability in thermodynamics
Apr 26, 2011
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Can Lagrangian mechanics be justified without referring to Newtonian mechanics?
May 18, 2015
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What is a tensor?
Sep 13, 2016
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Why do we select the metric tensor for raising and lowering indices?
May 17, 2017
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Mathematically possible vs physically probable outcomes
Jun 16, 2014
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Intuitively, what is the difference between Eigendecomposition and Singular Value Decomposition?
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Motivation for Ramanujan's mysterious $\pi$ formula
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What is the intuition behind Chebyshev's Inequality in Measure Theory
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Why is Newton's method not widely used in machine learning?

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