ESP Biography
SHANNON FAN, ESP Teacher
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Major: Mathematics College/Employer: Stanford Year of Graduation: 2025 |
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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)M8017: The Mathematics of Distance in Splash Spring 2024 (May. 18 - 19, 2024)
How would you measure the distance between two things? With a ruler, perhaps. But what if these two things are intangible, like 'cat' and 'rat'? Or the DNA of two humans on earth? Turns out, we can generalize the idea of a 'distance' and it can become super useful!
In this class, we'll attempt to motivate the mathematical notion of metric, and look at some interesting applications in information theory, machine learning and social science.
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