Book Review: Algorithmic Mathematics in Machine Learning
Hollis Daniel Williams, Azza M. Algatheem · SIAM Review · 2025
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their work on artificial intelligence and machine learning. The award has been somewhat controversial in the physics community and prompted some heated debates, since the only apparent use of physics is the Boltzmann distribution in the sampling function of the Boltzmann machine [D. H. Ackley, G. E. Hinton, and T. J. Sejnowski, Cog. Sci., 9 (1985), pp. 147–169]. If we leave aside this debate for the time being, it is undeniable that artificial intelligence and machine learning have had a transformative effect on various areas of science and technology.