"None of that really matters though because AFAIK you can't prove a neural net has been trained "correctly" and doesn't contain errors." Progress is being made in this area. Here is an "old" paper:…
I think a lot of responses here are forgetting that OP is an undergraduate student in an _Applied_ Mathematics course. "A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics" by Martin Liebeck would be my suggestion.
"None of that really matters though because AFAIK you can't prove a neural net has been trained "correctly" and doesn't contain errors." Progress is being made in this area. Here is an "old" paper:…
I think a lot of responses here are forgetting that OP is an undergraduate student in an _Applied_ Mathematics course. "A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics" by Martin Liebeck would be my suggestion.