Everything about Linearity

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: LinearityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Graded Interlocks for Iontronic Pressure Sensors with High Sensitivity and High Linearity over a Broad RangeInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Linear algebra and its applicationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Aggregation and Linearity in the Provision of Intertemporal IncentivesCited 2,055 times
5. Go sideways: Nonlinear systemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Linear differential equationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Aggregation and Linearity in the Provision of Intertemporal Incentives

  Bengt Holmstrom, Paul Milgrom · 1987 · Econometrica · 2,055 citations

• Reliability in multi-site structural MRI studies: Effects of gradient non-linearity correction on phantom and human data

  Jorge Jovicich, Silvester Czanner, Douglas Greve · 2006 · NeuroImage · 1,200 citations

• The Z/sub 4/-linearity of Kerdock, Preparata, Goethals, and related codes

  A.R. Hammons, P.V. Kumar, A.R. Calderbank · 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1,124 citations

• Testing linearity against smooth transition autoregressive models

  RITVA LUUKKONEN, PENTTI SAIKKONEN, TIMO TERÄSVIRTA · 1988 · Biometrika · 935 citations

• Epidermis Microstructure Inspired Graphene Pressure Sensor with Random Distributed Spinosum for High Sensitivity and Large Linearity

  Yu Pang, Kunning Zhang, Zhen Yang · 2018 · ACS Nano · 774 citations

• Linearity and Normalization in Simple Cells of the Macaque Primary Visual Cortex

  Matteo Carandini, David J. Heeger, J. Anthony Movshon · 1997 · The Journal of Neuroscience · 771 citations

• Improvement in linearity and regulation of stiffness that results from actions of stretch reflex

  T. R. Nichols, J. C. Houk · 1976 · Journal of Neurophysiology · 713 citations

• Linearity of the Frank-Starling relationship in the intact heart: the concept of preload recruitable stroke work.

  D D Glower, J A Spratt, N D Snow · 1985 · Circulation · 705 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Graded Interlocks for Iontronic Pressure Sensors with High Sensitivity and High Linearity over a Broad Range

  Ningning Bai, Liu Wang, Yiheng Xue · 2022 · ACS Nano · 364 citations

• Multifunctional Organohydrogel with Ultralow‐Hysteresis, Ultrafast‐Response, and Whole‐Strain‐Range Linearity for Self‐Powered Sensors

  Jian Zou, Xin Jing, Zhuo Chen · 2023 · Advanced Functional Materials · 218 citations

• High‐Performance Neuromorphic Computing Based on Ferroelectric Synapses with Excellent Conductance Linearity and Symmetry

  Shu‐Ting Yang, Xing‐Yu Li, Tong‐Liang Yu · 2022 · Advanced Functional Materials · 173 citations

• Heatwave breaks down the linearity between sun‐induced fluorescence and gross primary production

  David Martini, Karolina Sakowska, Georg Wohlfahrt · 2022 · New Phytologist · 152 citations

• A flexible pressure sensor with highly customizable sensitivity and linearity via positive design of microhierarchical structures with a hyperelastic model

  Zhenjin Xu, Dezhi Wu, Zhiwen Chen · 2023 · Microsystems & Nanoengineering · 150 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Linear algebra and its applicationsDavid C. Lay, Lay · 1994
• Elementary linear algebraHoward Anton, Chris Rorres · 1973
• The decipherment of linear BJohn Chadwick · 1958
• Linear Algebra with ApplicationsGareth Williams · 1984
• CalculusStanley I. Grossman · 1977
• Elementary linear algebraBernard Kolman, David R. Hill · 1970
• Linear algebraRichard C. Penney · 1997
• Linear algebra with applicationsOtto Bretscher · 1997

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