Winter 2025

MATH - BIOINF- STAT 547: Mathematics of Data

Instructor: Prof. INDIKA Rajapakse (indikar@umich.edu)

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI): MARC Andrew Choi (machoi@umich.edu)

Location: 2140 SKB (School of Kinesiology Building)

Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Office Hours: 

Links

References of Interest

PROBLEM OF THE DAY (POD)


PROBLEM SETS

This section includes assignments, solutions, and helpful resources. 

FINAL Project: Due April 26 (no extensions!)

NOTES, SLIDES, AND PAPERS


Date: 01-09-2025

Introduction: Slides

Date: 01-14-2025

"You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity"―Richard P. Feynman 

Papers


Date: 01-16-2025

"If you don’t believe in yourself why is anyone else going to believe in you?" ― Tom Brady


Date: 01-21-2025

Quote of the Day

"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them" ― John von Neumann 

MathWorks Co-Founder and Chief Mathematician Cleve B. Moler


Date: 1-23-2025

Quote of the Day

"Everything is practice" ― Pele 

Additional Reading

https://databookuw.com/


Date: 1-28-2025

Quote of the Day

"Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty" ― Richard Feynman 

Book

Chapter 1: Dynamic Mode Decomposition: An Introduction

Additional Reading


Date: 1-30-2025

Quote of the Day

"Be constantly on the lookout for hype"―David Heckerman


Date: 2-04-2025

Quote of the Day

"I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing " ― Sydney Brenner 

Papers


Date: 2-06-2025

Quote of the Day

"You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of mathematics" ― Maryam Mirzakhani  

Date: 2-11-2025

Quote of the Day

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere" Carl Sagan


Date: 2-13-2025

Quote of the Day

"I believe in my game, and I believe in me. At the end of the day, I'm my biggest fan" Serena Williams 

Papers


Date: 02- 18-2025

"Stay hungry, stay foolish" ― Steve Jobs 

Papers


Date: 02- 20-2025

"I don’t think limits”  ― Usain Bolt


Date: 02- 25-2025

"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics ” ― Paul Halmos 

Linear Dimension Reduction


Date: 02- 27-2025

"Simplicity makes me happy ” ― Alicia Keys 

Nonlinear Dimension Reduction

Papers

Remark: This is a really nice review in general, but the most relevant parts are pages 8, 9, and 10


Winter Vacation (March 1 - March 10, 2025): Suggested Reading!


Date: 03- 12-2025

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible ” ― Richard P. Feynman

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Nonlinear Dimension Reduction

Papers

Remark: This is a really nice review in general, but the most relevant parts are pages 8, 9, and 10


Date: 3-13-2025

Quote of the Day

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing"―Isaac Asimov  

Tensors = Multi-Dimensional Arrays, Graphs represented with adjacency matrix and Hypergraphs represented with adjacency tensor 

Other Resources:  Dr. Charles Van Loan

Papers



Date: 3-18-2025

Quote of the Day

"The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas"― Linus Pauling

Links for Programming Demo:

Papers


Date: 3-27-2025

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess" Isaac Newton



Papers


Date: 4-01-2025

Quote of the Day

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do" ― Steve Jobs 


Papers


Date: 4-03-2025

Quote of the Day

"The more we know, the more we realize there is to know" ― Jennifer Doudna


Remark: Condition Number and Hierarchical Clustering 

Papers




GENERAL READING

I will add to this list throughout the semester