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1 · Prerequisites
Abstract Algebra
- Binary Operations, Monoids, Groups and Subgroups
- Cosets, Index and Lagrange's Theorem
- Divisibility, Euclidean Domains, Principal Ideal Domains and Unique Factorisation
- Ideals, Quotient Rings and the Isomorphism Theorems for Rings
- Normal Subgroups and Quotient Groups
- Polynomial Rings, the Division Algorithm and Roots
- Rings, Subrings, Integral Domains and Fields
- Simple Field Extensions and the Construction of the Complex Numbers
Combinatorics
Computability Theory
Functional Analysis
Linear Algebra
- Complexification, Realification and Real Structures
- Linear Independence, Bases and Dimension
- Linear Transformations, Rank-Nullity and Quotient Spaces
- Matrices, the Matrix of a Linear Map, and Change of Basis
- Triangularisation, Generalised Eigenspaces and Jordan Canonical Form
- Vector Spaces, Linear Subspaces, Span and Direct Sums
Machine Learning Algorithms
Measure Theory
- Measurable Functions and Simple Approximation
- Measures and Their Basic Properties
- Outer Measure and the Caratheodory Extension Theorem
- Product Measures and the Fubini Tonelli Theorems
- Sigma Algebras and Borel Sets
- Signed and Complex Measures Hahn and Jordan
- The Lebesgue Integral and the Convergence Theorems
- The Lᵖ Spaces Holder Minkowski and Riesz Fischer
- The Radon Nikodym Theorem and Lebesgue Decomposition
Probability
Real Analysis
- Absolute and Conditional Convergence; Rearrangement; Products
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Cauchy Sequences
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Dedekind Cuts
- Continuity, IVT, EVT, and Uniform Continuity
- Countability and Uncountability
- Foundations of the Real Numbers for Analysis
- Limits of Real Functions
- limsup, liminf, and Subsequential Limits
- Monotone Functions, Discontinuities, and Continuity Sets
- Monotone Sequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, and Cauchy Completeness
- Power Series and Real-Analytic Functions
- Properties of the Integral and the Working FTC
- Rⁿ as a Normed Space; Vector-Valued Functions
- Roots, Rational Powers, and Classical Inequalities
- Sequences and Limits
- Sequences and Series of Functions; Uniform Convergence
- Series: Convergence and the Nonnegative Tests
- Suprema and Infima
- The Derivative and the Mean Value Theorems
- The Exponential Function
- The Logarithm and General Powers
- The Riemann Integral: Definition and Integrability
- The Total Derivative in ℝᵐ → ℝⁿ
- Topology of ℝ
Set Theory
2 · Logical flowchart
3 · Items
Definition
Differentiable stationary stochastic policies and score vectors
Lemma
A policy score has zero conditional mean before the action
Theorem
Discounted episodic policy gradients from trajectory likelihoods
Algorithm
One-step episodic actor–critic with a bootstrapped critic
Algorithm
Episodic REINFORCE with a frozen episode policy
Lemma
A state-dependent action-independent baseline preserves the gradient mean
Algorithm