Classical music makes me cry
Each time I hear a piece
My heart wells up with so much joy
Until music cease Chopin, Beethoven, and Mozart too
Make the inner sole want to sing
It makes me happy to hear the notes
To each note my heart wants to cling Classical music has never meant so much
To me until to Europe I went
But now it brings overwhelming joy
Many hours of listening are spent What a wondrous talent the writers did have
Of the Classicals I listen to each day
The joy it brings to many of us
Will last forever each day that it’s played.
LeetCode - Algorithms - 912. Sort an Array
Problem
Given an array of integers nums, sort the array in ascending order.
Java
Insertion sort
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 10 / 10 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 1323 ms, faster than 5.01% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 47.2 MB, less than 6.12% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
Mergesort
bottom-up mergesort
This method requires even less code than the standard recursive implementation.
© Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 7 ms, faster than 34.85% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.7 MB, less than 12.67% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
Top-down mergesort
recursive method
© Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 6 ms, faster than 57.85% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.3 MB, less than 14.62% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
Shellsort
© Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
Example of simple idea leading to substantial performance gains.
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 1865 ms, faster than 5.04% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.2 MB, less than 18.92% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
Quicksort
1
© John Bentley, Programming Pearls
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 10 / 10 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 4 ms, faster than 91.33% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.8 MB, less than 6.12% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
quicksort with 3-way partitioning
© Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 4 ms, faster than 89.87% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.9 MB, less than 12.99% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
selection sort
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 1169 ms, faster than 5.10% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.3 MB, less than 86.77% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
heap sort
iterative
© Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne
Heapsort breaks into two phases: heap construction, where we reorganize the original array into a heap, and the sortdown, where we pull the items out of the heap in decreasing order to build the sorted result.
Q. Why not use a[0] in the heap representation?
A. Doing so simplifies the arithmetic a bit. It is not difficult to implement the heap methods based on a 0-based heap where the children of a[0] are a[1] and a[2], the children of a[1] are a[3] and a[4], the children of a[2] are a[5] and a[6], and so forth, but most programmers prefer the simpler arithmetic that we use. Also, using a[0] as a sentinel value (in the parent of a[1]) is useful in some heap applications.
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 6 ms, faster than 53.50% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.6 MB, less than 48.27% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
recursion
© HeapSort
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 7 ms, faster than 30.29% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 46.7 MB, less than 32.93% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
jdk PriorityQueue
1 | import java.util.PriorityQueue; |
Submission Detail
- 11 / 11 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 18 ms, faster than 16.69% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
- Memory Usage: 47.7 MB, less than 11.36% of Java online submissions for Sort an Array.
LeetCode - Algorithms - 547. Friend Circles
Problem
Java
union–find
© 1.5 Case Study: Union-Find Copyright © 2000–2019 Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne. All rights reserved.
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 113 / 113 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 1 ms, faster than 72.63% of Java online submissions for Friend Circles.
- Memory Usage: 40.3 MB, less than 68.00% of Java online submissions for Friend Circles.
Depth-first search
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 113 / 113 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 4 ms, faster than 25.38% of Java online submissions for Friend Circles.
- Memory Usage: 40.1 MB, less than 72.00% of Java online submissions for Friend Circles.
Resources
LeetCode - Algorithms - 867. Transpose Matrix
Problem
Given a matrix A, return the transpose of A.
\( \begin{bmatrix}
1 &2 &3 \\
4 &5 &6 \\
7 &8 &9
\end{bmatrix} \Rightarrow \begin{bmatrix}
1 &4 &7 \\
2 &5 &8 \\
3 &6 &9
\end{bmatrix} \)
Java
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 36 / 36 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 0 ms, faster than 100.00% of Java online submissions for Transpose Matrix.
- Memory Usage: 40.6 MB, less than 91.67% of Java online submissions for Transpose Matrix.
A Response to "Bell's Conjecture"
\(\huge e^{i\pi}+1=0 \)
by Charlie Marion and William Dunham
Before we let you get away,
Your choices set in stone,
Consider what we have to say:
E.T.! O, please! Call home!
Stop the presses! Hold that thought!
And listen to our voices.
Ruffled, even overwrought,
We’ll supplement your choices.
Old Archie, Isaac, C. F. Gauss–
Though each deserves a floor
In mathematics’ honored house,
Make room for just one more.
Without the Bard of Basel, Bell,
You’ve clearly dropped the ball.
Our votes are cast for Euler, L.
Whose OPERA says it all:
Six dozen volumes — what a feat!
Profound and deep throughout
Does Leonhard rank with the elite?
Of this there is no doubt.
Consider how he summed, in turn
The quite elusive mix
Of one slash n all squared — you’ll learn
he got π2 slash six.
\( \zeta(2)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^2} = \lim_{n \to \infty} (\frac{1}{1^2}+\frac{1}{2^2}+\frac{1}{3^2}+\cdots+\frac{1}{n^2}) = \frac{\pi^2}{6} \)
We’re shocked we did not see his name
With those you justly sainted.
No Euler in your Hall of Fame?
Your judgment’s surely Taine-ted.
It’s time to honor one you missed,
To do your duty well.
Add worthy Euler to your list,
And save him by the Bell.
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- Reprinted from the Mathematics Magazine, Vol.70, December, 1997, p.326
- The Genius of Euler: Reflections on His Life and Work
- Charlie Marion is a high school teacher
- Euler is also celebrated by the Lutheran Church on their Calendar of Saints on May 24.
Tower of Hanoi
Problem
We are given a tower of n disks, initially stacked in decreasing size on one of three pegs: The objective is to transfer the entire tower to one of the other pegs, moving only one disk at a time and never moving a larger one onto a smaller.
Solution
The minimal number of moves required to solve a Tower of Hanoi puzzle is \( 2^n-1 \), where n is the number of disks. This is precisely the nth Mersenne number.
recurrence relation
\( T_0=0, T_1=1 \)
\( T_n=2T_{n-1}+1 \)
if we let \( u_n=T_n+1 \), we have
\( u_0=1 \)
\( u_n=2u_{n-1} \), for n>0
\( u_n=2^n \)
hence \( T_n=2^n-1 \)
Java
recurrence
1 | public class HanoiTower { |
resources
Why should you listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"? - Betsy Schwarm - TED-Ed
Light, bright, and cheerful. It’s some of the most familiar of all early 18th century music. It’s been featured in uncounted films and television commercials, but what is it and why does it sound that way?
This is the opening of “Spring” from “The Four Seasons,” by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. “The Four Seasons” are famous in part because they are a delight to the ear. However, even more notable is the fact that they have stories to tell. At the time of their publication in Amsterdam in 1725, they were accompanied by poems describing exactly what feature of that season Vivaldi intended to capture in musical terms. In providing specific plot content for instrumental music, Vivaldi was generations ahead of his time.
If one were to read the poems simultaneously to hearing the music, one would find the poetic scenes synchronizing nicely with the musical imagery. We are told that the birds welcome spring with happy song, and here they are doing exactly that. Soon, however, a thunderstorm breaks out. Not only is there musical thunder and lightning, there are also more birds, wet, frightened, and unhappy.
In “Summer,” the turtle dove sings her name “tortorella” in Italian, before a hail storm flattens the fields. “Autumn” brings eager hunters dashing out in pursuit of their prey.
The “Winter” concerto begins with teeth chattering in the cold before one takes refuge by a crackling fire. Then it’s back out into the storm where there’ll be slips and falls on the ice. In these first weeks of winter, the old year is coming to a close, and so does Vivaldi’s musical exploration of the seasons.
Not until the early 19th century would such expressive instrumental program music, as it was known, become popular. By then, larger, more varied ensembles were the rule with woodwinds, brass, and percussion to help tell the tale. But Vivaldi pulled it off with just one violin, strings, and a harpsichord. Unlike his contemporary Bach, Vivaldi wasn’t much interested in complicated fugues. He preferred to offer readily accessible entertainment to his listeners with melodies that pop back up later in a piece to remind us of where we’ve been. So the first movement of the “Spring” concerto begins with a theme for spring and ends with it, too, slightly varied from when it was last heard.
It was an inspired way to attract listeners, and Vivaldi, considered one of the most electrifying violinists of the early 18th century, understood the value of attracting audiences. Such concerts might feature himself as the star violinist. Others presented the young musicians of the Pietà, a Venetian girls’ school where Vivaldi was Director of Music. Most of the students were orphans. Music training was intended not only as social skills suitable for young ladies but also as potential careers for those who might fail to make good marriages.
Even in the composer’s own time, Vivaldi’s music served as diversion for all, not just for the wealthy aristocrats. 300 years later, it’s an approach that still works, and Vivaldi’s music still sounds like trotting horses on the move.
The Four Seasons - Sonnet text - Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons is Vivaldi‘s best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces in the classical music repertoire.
Antonio Vivaldi composed a collection of “sound-pictures” that magically brought seasonal sights and sounds to the ear.
Spring
Allegro
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are
softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.
Largo e pianissimo sempre
On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy branches
rustling overhead, the goat-herd sleeps,
his faithful dog beside him.
Allegro pastorale
Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes,
nymphs and shepherds lightly dance
beneath the brilliant canopy of spring.
Summer
Allegro non molto
Under a hard season, fired up by the sun
Languishes man, languishes the flock and burns the pine
We hear the cuckoo’s voice;
then sweet songs of the turtledove and finch are heard.
Soft breezes stir the air, but threatening
the North Wind sweeps them suddenly aside.
The shepherd trembles,
fearing violent storms and his fate.
Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
The fear of lightning and fierce thunder
Robs his tired limbs of rest
As gnats and flies buzz furiously around.
Presto
Alas, his fears were justified
The Heavens thunder and roar and with hail
Cut the head off the wheat and damages the grain.
Autumn
Allegro
Celebrates the peasant, with songs and dances,
The pleasure of a bountiful harvest.
And fired up by Bacchus’ liquor,
many end their revelry in sleep.
Adagio molto
Everyone is made to forget their cares and to sing and dance
By the air which is tempered with pleasure
And (by) the season that invites so many, many
Out of their sweetest slumber to fine enjoyment
Allegro
The hunters emerge at the new dawn,
And with horns and dogs and guns depart upon their hunting
The beast flees and they follow its trail;
Terrified and tired of the great noise
Of guns and dogs, the beast, wounded, threatens
Languidly to flee, but harried, dies.
Winter
Allegro non molto
To tremble from cold in the icy snow,
In the harsh breath of a horrid wind;
To run, stamping one’s feet every moment,
Our teeth chattering in the extreme cold
Largo
Before the fire to pass peaceful,
Contented days while the rain outside pours down.
Allegro
We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously,
for fear of tripping and falling.
Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground and,
rising, hasten on across the ice lest it cracks up.
We feel the chill north winds course through the home
despite the locked and bolted doors…
this is winter, which nonetheless
brings its own delights.
数学题 - 1
A course of pure mathematics, G.H.Hardy
P34
chapterⅠ Real Variables
- If a,b,c are positive,and \( a+b+c=1 \),then
\( (\frac{1}{a}-1)(\frac{1}{b}-1)(\frac{1}{c}-1) \geq 8. \) (Math. Trip. 1932)
if a>0 and b>0 then \( \frac{a+b}{2} \geq \sqrt{ab} \)
\( a>0, b>0, c>0, a+b+c=1 \)
\( (\frac{1}{a}-1)(\frac{1}{b}-1)(\frac{1}{c}-1) \)
\(=\frac{b+c}{a} \times \frac{a+c}{b} \times \frac{a+b}{c} \)
\( \geq 2 \times \frac{\sqrt{bc}}{a} \times 2 \times \frac{\sqrt{ac}}{b} \times 2 \times \frac{\sqrt{ab}}{c} = 8 \)
求极限
p207, No.5
\( \lim_{x \to \infty} \sqrt{x}(\sqrt{x+a}-\sqrt{x}) \)
p207, No.8
\( \lim_{x \to \infty} x^3(\sqrt{x^2+\sqrt{x^4+1}}-x \sqrt{2}) \)
求原函数
p281, No.53
\( \int \frac{x-1}{(x+1) \sqrt{x(x^2+x+1)}}dx \)
p263, No.6
\( \int \frac{1}{x \sqrt{3x^2+2x+1}}dx \)
有理数跟自然数等势
\( NXN \sim N \)
笛卡儿坐标系第一象限内的整数格点是直观地能一笔画联起来的,我是用y=-x的平行线簇,从原点出发,呈锯齿状把所有整数格子点串起来,这就表明NXN的元素是可以线性化的,即能存储到一个数组里
具体的双射关系是:
\( f(\langle a, b \rangle)=\frac{(a+b)(a+b+1)}{2}+b \)
反函数 \( g(a)=\langle \frac{1}{2N(N+3)}-a, a-\frac{1}{2N(N+1)} \rangle \) ,其中 \( N=floor(\frac{\sqrt{8a+1}-1}{2}) \)
是把横纵坐标联立后解一个一元二次方程得的这个结果
LeetCode - Algorithms - 815. Bus Routes
Hard problem. Accepted after four submissions. Done by myself.
Problem
Java
1 | class Solution { |
Submission Detail
- 45 / 45 test cases passed.
- Runtime: 1156 ms, faster than 5.02% of Java online submissions for Bus Routes.
- Memory Usage: 48.2 MB, less than 100.00% of Java online submissions for Bus Routes.