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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

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.

SS

Aug 3, 2019

Very Well Explained. Good content and great explanation of content. Complex topics are also covered in very easy way. Very Helpful for learning much more complex topics for Machine Learning in future.

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By ADITYA K

May 12, 2020

It is a beautifully designed course to get knowledge of how to apply various types of calculus to machine learning.

By Adam N

Nov 12, 2018

Very nice and concise, definitely review normal calculus and look up materials to get the most out of this course.

By Mohammad A K

Jul 6, 2020

good math course for learning derivatives, there could have been a better way to summarize and explain the course

By Rachel P

May 28, 2020

An amazing course for beginners in Machine learning and brushing up your Mathematics skills at the same time.

By Manan S

May 29, 2021

more on optimization techniques like in-depth concepts of gradient descent would have helped, rest was great

By Eileen Y

Apr 17, 2020

It seems that the lecture is not quite closely connected with the quiz, which may bring great confusion.

By Sharan S M

Jan 9, 2020

Great course If you want to learn Multivariate calculus. Teaches a lot of topics and is a bit rigorous

By Sedka I

Nov 4, 2021

It is a great course But the English accent of the bald teacher is very difficult to understand

By AKASH C

Jun 15, 2020

this course is not for beginners but some good concepts are there which was needed for progress

By OK

May 21, 2018

Not enough detail in the explanations and little to no instructor participation in the forums.

By Srinivas A

Jul 25, 2020

Topics are taught well for most part but there needs to be more help on answering questions.

By José D

Oct 18, 2018

Very instructive, good refresher of multivariate calculus in the context of machine learning

By Sourav K B

Jan 23, 2020

A nice tour of multi-variate calculus starting from basics. Good for initial understanding.

By Davide F

Sep 12, 2019

Some complex topics were explained a bit too fast. The course on Linear Algebra was better.

By J N B P

Aug 19, 2020

Good for those who already know a lit bit of Calculus, beginners might feel it difficult.

By Sharad K L

Mar 18, 2020

It is hard course and time required is much more than estimated time given in the course

By tishat a

Apr 23, 2020

Very helpful to understand the topics.But last two weeks was a bit tough to understand.

By Jue C

Oct 26, 2020

The last module is quite fast and ambiguous, but besides that, everything is perfect.

By Styven G A

Dec 13, 2019

un enfoque interesante, un buen repaso de matemáticas y una excelente apacibilidad.

By Suraj S

May 3, 2020

Week 6 was not easy for a complete beginner, but all the other weeks were amazing.

By Eduardo A G M

Oct 10, 2021

The materials reviewed are excellent, but the time for each one wasn't enought

By Mohit P

May 9, 2020

The practice quize should be more along with detailed explanation of the topic

By Elif A

Mar 16, 2021

The content is short, clear and enough. It is the right choice for beginners.

By Moreno C

Feb 15, 2020

Good introductory course to develop an intuition of multivariate calculus.

By vignesh n

Sep 12, 2018

It was a good course compared to other two courses of this specialization.