The Intellectual Heritage of Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Music of the Spheres

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This talk introduces the mathematical methods of Babylonian astronomy in the Seleucid era (c. 300 BCE) including cyclic networks of regime-switched piecewise linear iterated maps.  These ancient methods foreshadow modern approaches to chaotic dynamic systems and may be related to periodic recurrent neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions.


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  • Date: 05 Dec 2023
  • Time: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
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  • Starts 21 November 2023 06:42 PM
  • Ends 05 December 2023 06:00 PM
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The Intellectual Heritage of Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Music of the Spheres

This talk introduces the mathematical methods of Babylonian astronomy in the Seleucid era (c. 300 BCE) including cyclic networks of regime-switched piecewise linear iterated maps.  These ancient methods foreshadow modern approaches to chaotic dynamic systems and may be related to periodic recurrent neural networks with piecewise linear activation functions.

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