Welcome to the University of Stuttgart "Math for Intelligent System" lecture page. These lectures will be part of the Master's winter term 2017/18, and will be based on:

• Prof. Marc Toussaint's script
• Nathan Ratliff's lecture material

The course is listed in c@mpus under the name "Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Autonomous Systems/Mathematics for Intelligent Systems", however we prefer the short "Math for Intelligent Systems" and will refer to it accordingly. So don't get confused.

Students are required to have solid knowledge in linear algebra, probability theory and optimization. Fluency in at least one higher level programming language (MATLAB/GNU Octave, Python, etc.) is highly recommended.

What is this lecture about

The "Maths for Intelligent Systems" course will recap essentials of linear algebra, optimization, probabilities, and statistics in order to equip students with the basics of speaking maths to formulate problems in intelligent systems research.

"The point of this lecture is to teach you to speak maths, to use maths to describe systems or problems. I feel that most maths courses rather teach to consume maths, or solve mathematical problems, or prove things. Clearly, this is also important. But for the purpose of intelligent systems research, it is essential to be skilled in expressing problems mathematically, before even thinking about resulting algorithms." -- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marc Toussaint (Head of MLR, University of Stuttgart)