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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

DP

Nov 25, 2018

Great course to develop some understanding and intuition about the basic concepts used in optimization. Last 2 weeks were a bit on a lower level of quality then the rest in my opinion but still great.

JT

Nov 12, 2018

Excellent course. I completed this course with no prior knowledge of multivariate calculus and was successful nonetheless. It was challenging and extremely interesting, informative, and well designed.

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By Trishita M

Jul 12, 2020

Excellent course to get started for learning the math behind Machine Learning,etc.

By Aditya M

May 10, 2020

this course is really helpful for building mathematical skills for machine learning

By Ajay S

Apr 8, 2019

really a great course for learning calculus for mathematics. thanks for teaching us

By T K

Jul 21, 2020

Right amount of practice and programming assignments, helped in building intuition

By Fabian B

Jun 16, 2019

Challenging, but very exciting. Learned a lot interesting fundamentals. Thank you.

By j.guadalupe o

Apr 23, 2018

It is a very good course about the Mathematics behind the Machine Learning models.

By Anshit S

Jan 8, 2023

I loved the way course is designed. It is little bit hard but very well designed.

By Tze C L

Feb 12, 2021

Intuitive and practical guide to calculus with applications for machine learning.

By Aishik R

Jan 11, 2020

Explanation on derivative of a vector wrt Matrix would have been great e.g, dZ/dW

By Suyog P

Aug 21, 2019

Excellent course to start for Machine Learning and revise Multivariable Calculus.

By Carlos A V P

Jan 12, 2022

Fácil de entender y con un buen contenido introductorio, te deja listo para ML

By Jorge L C T

Aug 26, 2021

This course it´s great i love applied maths and the way the themes were given !

By Daniel W

Jun 13, 2020

Awesome class. Highly recommended. Both instructors among the best on Coursera.

By Oscar S

May 20, 2020

The course filled up my expectatives and the lecturers teachs in a simply form.

By Samuel S

Aug 21, 2019

Loved the course as it gives very concrete example to somehow abstract concepts

By Bohdan K

Aug 4, 2020

Nice course, tried to learn calculus by a book but this course is much easier!

By Sijeo P

Apr 26, 2020

Good Course to consider if looking to learn Machine Learing or Neural Networks

By Berkay E

Aug 4, 2019

The course has awesome explanations, especially for machine learning concepts.

By Yuri K

Jan 4, 2024

Overall the course is great. Especially if you want to refresh the knowledge.

By Paula P

Jun 19, 2020

This a great course, right to the point with very good teachers. Recommended!

By Luo Y

Oct 2, 2019

Excellent course for gaining a basic understanding for calculus-coding stuff.

By Shubham T

Jul 18, 2019

Great course. It provides good insights on Calculus used in Machine Learning.

By Ling J

Apr 9, 2018

This is a good course for those people learned calculus before for a refresh.

By Olga M

Oct 7, 2024

I like the pace and the general structure of the course. Thank you very much

By Nugy

Feb 27, 2021

Great explanation with a lot of animation to help me understand the concept!