Bundle adjustment (BA) is a fundamental optimization technique used in many crucial applications, including 3D scene reconstruction, robotic localization, camera calibration, autonomous driving, ...

“You’ve had this whole new class of mathematical functions—these theoretical things that had appeared in string theory,” Mogull says. “And we’re saying, ‘Look, this is tangible.

“Our solution reopens a previously closed book in mathematics history,” Prof. Wildberger says. The polynomial problem. Solutions to degree-two polynomials have been around since 1800 BC, thanks to the ...