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Merge landing page with introduction.

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The existing introduction was a bit redundant and also
was not really an introduction. Also updated the build
instructions to reflect the new reality on Mac OSX.

Also updated the beginning of the tutorial to be a bit
gentler and updated the history to be more consistent

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@@ -12,6 +12,19 @@ Ceres solves robustified non-linear least squares problems of the form
.. math:: \frac{1}{2}\sum_{i} \rho_i\left(\left\|f_i\left(x_{i_1}, ... ,x_{i_k}\right)\right\|^2\right).
:label: ceresproblem
Problems of this form comes up in a broad range of areas across
science and engineering - from `fitting curves`_ in statistics, to
constructing `3D models from photographs`_ in computer vision.
.. _fitting curves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_regression
.. _3D model from photographs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_adjustment
In this chapter we will learn how to solve :eq:`ceresproblem` using
Ceres Solver. Full working code for all the examples described in this
chapter and more can be found in the `examples
<https://ceres-solver.googlesource.com/ceres-solver/+/master/examples/>`_
directory.
The expression
:math:`\rho_i\left(\left\|f_i\left(x_{i_1},...,x_{i_k}\right)\right\|^2\right)`
is known as a ``ResidualBlock``, where :math:`f_i(\cdot)` is a
@@ -33,12 +46,6 @@ more familiar `non-linear least squares problem
.. math:: \frac{1}{2}\sum_{i} \left\|f_i\left(x_{i_1}, ... ,x_{i_k}\right)\right\|^2.
:label: ceresproblem2
In this chapter we will learn how to solve :eq:`ceresproblem` using
Ceres Solver. Full working code for all the examples described in this
chapter and more can be found in the `examples
<https://ceres-solver.googlesource.com/ceres-solver/+/master/examples/>`_
directory.
.. _section-hello-world:
Hello World!