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Can machine learning identify interesting mathematics? An exploration using empirically observed laws

Authors :
Wu, Chai Wah
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

We explore the possibility of using machine learning to identify interesting mathematical structures by using certain quantities that serve as fingerprints. In particular, we extract features from integer sequences using two empirical laws: Benford's law and Taylor's law and experiment with various classifiers to identify whether a sequence is, for example, nice, important, multiplicative, easy to compute or related to primes or palindromes.<br />Comment: 9 pages, minor edits and fixed typos

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1805.07431
Document Type :
Working Paper