Catégorie dérivéeLa catégorie dérivée d'une catégorie est une construction, originellement introduite par Jean-Louis Verdier dans sa thèse et reprise dans SGA 41⁄2, qui permet notamment de raffiner et simplifier la théorie des foncteurs dérivés. Elle a amené à plusieurs développements importants, ainsi que des reformulations élégantes par exemple de la théorie des D-modules et des preuves de la qui généralise le vingt-et-unième problème de Hilbert. En particulier, le langage des catégories dérivées permet de simplifier des problèmes exprimés en termes de suites spectrales.
Nonlinear filterIn signal processing, a nonlinear (or non-linear) filter is a filter whose output is not a linear function of its input. That is, if the filter outputs signals R and S for two input signals r and s separately, but does not always output αR + βS when the input is a linear combination αr + βs. Both continuous-domain and discrete-domain filters may be nonlinear. A simple example of the former would be an electrical device whose output voltage R(t) at any moment is the square of the input voltage r(t); or which is the input clipped to a fixed range [a,b], namely R(t) = max(a, min(b, r(t))).
Lissage (mathématiques)vignette|Exemple de lissage d'une courbe. La courbe bleue joint des données brutes de la température moyenne quotidienne à la station météo de Paris-Montsouris (France) du 1960/01/01 au 1960/02/29. La courbe orange est obtenue avec un lissage exponentiel simple et un facteur alpha = 0.1. Le lissage est une technique qui consiste à réduire les irrégularités et singularités d'une courbe en mathématiques. Cette technique est utilisée en traitement du signal pour atténuer ce qui peut être considéré comme une perturbation ou un bruit de mesure.
Entropy and lifeResearch concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910, American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of thermodynamics and on the principle of entropy. The 1944 book What is Life? by Nobel-laureate physicist Erwin Schrödinger stimulated further research in the field.
Smooth morphismIn algebraic geometry, a morphism between schemes is said to be smooth if (i) it is locally of finite presentation (ii) it is flat, and (iii) for every geometric point the fiber is regular. (iii) means that each geometric fiber of f is a nonsingular variety (if it is separated). Thus, intuitively speaking, a smooth morphism gives a flat family of nonsingular varieties. If S is the spectrum of an algebraically closed field and f is of finite type, then one recovers the definition of a nonsingular variety.
Whittle likelihoodIn statistics, Whittle likelihood is an approximation to the likelihood function of a stationary Gaussian time series. It is named after the mathematician and statistician Peter Whittle, who introduced it in his PhD thesis in 1951. It is commonly used in time series analysis and signal processing for parameter estimation and signal detection. In a stationary Gaussian time series model, the likelihood function is (as usual in Gaussian models) a function of the associated mean and covariance parameters.
