ESP Biography
JIN PAN, ESP Teacher
Major: Not available. College/Employer: MIT Year of Graduation: Not available. |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)M1641: Game Theory! in Splash! Fall 2011 (Oct. 29 - 30, 2011)
What does a Magic square have in common with tic-tac-toe? How do you play Nim? How can you win Hackenbush? How can you deal with Hackenbush addiction? We will answer all these game theory questions in exciting ways (well, perhaps not the last one!)
V1643: Advanced Hip Hop in Splash! Fall 2011 (Oct. 29 - 30, 2011)
An advanced lesson in hip hop consisting of warm-up and a combination taught to and performed by the students.
Bring sweatpants, sneakers, and a water bottle.
M1240: Fun with GF's (Generating Functions) in Splash! Spring 2011 (Apr. 16 - 17, 2011)
From modelling dice to generating Fibonacci numbers, GF's are essential to finding applications for advanced algebra.
Coupled with characteristic polynomials, they can be an extremely powerful tool in abstract algebra.
The goal of this course is to provide a nice introduction to GF's.
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