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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mathematics for Machine Learning: Multivariate Calculus by Imperial College London

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About the Course

This course offers a brief introduction to the multivariate calculus required to build many common machine learning techniques. We start at the very beginning with a refresher on the “rise over run” formulation of a slope, before converting this to the formal definition of the gradient of a function. We then start to build up a set of tools for making calculus easier and faster. Next, we learn how to calculate vectors that point up hill on multidimensional surfaces and even put this into action using an interactive game. We take a look at how we can use calculus to build approximations to functions, as well as helping us to quantify how accurate we should expect those approximations to be. We also spend some time talking about where calculus comes up in the training of neural networks, before finally showing you how it is applied in linear regression models. This course is intended to offer an intuitive understanding of calculus, as well as the language necessary to look concepts up yourselves when you get stuck. Hopefully, without going into too much detail, you’ll still come away with the confidence to dive into some more focused machine learning courses in future....

Top reviews

WW

Jan 12, 2021

Quality of instruction and the visual presentation was superb. Completing the second course in this specialisation in Machine Learning has improved my confidence to tackle more advanced topics

AF

May 12, 2020

Great course. It is clear and accessible, giving a lot of the intuition of why things are done. Some important topics in calculus are missing, such as Integration, but overall very good course.

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By Moez B

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Sep 10, 2019

Excellent course with engaging instructors.

By Greg B

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Oct 30, 2018

Great course with highly relevant material.

By NIYIGENGA A G

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Feb 3, 2024

Thanks to Imperial College for this course

By Kevin C

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Aug 5, 2021

well structured course. Thank you for this

By Krishna E G

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Sep 14, 2020

Very informative, thanks to team coursera.

By BHARAT K

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Jul 13, 2020

think you for imperial college of london

By AYUSH M

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Jun 17, 2020

Excellent primer for multivariate calculus

By Rajkumar R

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Jun 13, 2020

I enjoyed the journey of learning with ICL

By Arthur Z

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Jul 3, 2018

Very high quality lecturers and material.

By CHANDAN K S

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Oct 29, 2020

great course. love it. Thanks Coursera

By Sai G B A

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Jun 4, 2020

It was awesome diving into ml algorithms

By Learner4Life

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Nov 10, 2018

Great course! Especially the first half.

By Jorge C

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Oct 30, 2021

Excelente curso. Necesario y didáctico.

By Angel G

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Jul 28, 2020

Un excelente curso. An excellent course

By Shashank S

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Nov 13, 2019

A nice course on multivariate calculus.

By 희랑 이

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Feb 12, 2019

I think this course will help me a lot.

By Srikar V

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Apr 8, 2018

One of the best courses that I've done!

By Kukuh I M

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Mar 26, 2022

Cool Sir! I love it! thank you so much

By SYED H

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Sep 17, 2020

Very good course to refresh the basics

By MuhammadAlmujtaba A M Y

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Aug 31, 2020

great instructors, amazing mathematics

By Arjunsiva S

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Aug 22, 2020

Thanks a lot. The lecturers were great

By K P

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Jul 22, 2020

Good course and excellent assignments!

By Marco K

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May 7, 2020

Very well taught course; good build up

By Marin S

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Nov 29, 2020

Superb. Very informative and usefull.

By Daria B

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Sep 27, 2020

Very entertaining, good for beginners