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Everything about K-function
Concept in mathematics
In mathematics, the K-function, typically denoted K(z), is a generalization of the hyperfactorial to complex numbers, similar to the generalization of the factorial to the gamma function. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: K-functionA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: De novo design of protein structure and function with RFdiffusionInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Measure and categoryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreadingCited 35,966 times
- Go sideways: Balanced polygamma functionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Glaisher–Kinkelin constantA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
AutoDock Vina: Improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization, and multithreading
Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory
Homeostasis model assessment: insulin resistance and ?-cell function from fasting plasma glucose and insulin concentrations in man
Greedy function approximation: A gradient boosting machine.
A Simplex Method for Function Minimization
Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function
The Structure and Function of Complex Networks
Approximation by superpositions of a sigmoidal function
🆕 Influential since 2022
De novo design of protein structure and function with RFdiffusion
Wnt/β-catenin signalling: function, biological mechanisms, and therapeutic opportunities
Histone post-translational modifications — cause and consequence of genome function
ProteinBERT: a universal deep-learning model of protein sequence and function
New insights into activation and function of the AMPK
📚 Books worth reading
Measure and categoryJohn C. Oxtoby, Oxtoby · 1971
P-adic numbers, p-adic analysis, and zeta-functionsNeal Koblitz · 1977
Bloch-Kato Conjecture for the Riemann Zeta FunctionCoates, John, A. Raghuram · 2015
The Grothendieck festschriftP. Cartier · 1990
Behavioral Case Formulation and InterventionPeter Sturmey · 2007
Introductory real analysisAndrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov · 1970
Theorems and problemsin functional analysisA. A. Kirillov · 1982
The Grothendieck Festschrift Volume IIIPierre Cartier · 2006
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