First Principles Mathematical Rigor

The Mathematics of Deep Learning & Transformers

Derive loss landscapes, backpropagation Jacobians, manifold hypotheses, and transformer attention mechanisms from scratch using rigorous multivariable calculus and linear algebra.

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Attention(Q, K, V) = softmax( (Q KT) / √dk ) V
Scaled Dot-Product Attention operator derived step-by-step in Lecture 08

Curriculum & Problem Sets

PART I • FOUNDATIONS

High-Dimensional Linear Algebra & SVD

Vector spaces, orthogonal projections, spectral decompositions, and Principal Component Analysis as low-rank approximation.

PART II • OPTIMIZATION

Multivariate Calculus & Convex Optimization

Hessian matrices, gradient descent dynamics, saddle points, Adam optimizer momentum physics, and learning rate schedules.

PART III • MODERN ARCHITECTURES

Information Geometry & Attention Mechanics

Kullback-Leibler divergence, cross-entropy bounds, rotary positional embeddings (RoPE), and softmax temperature scaling.