Brief Biographical Sketch:
I'm a freshman at MIT, mainly interested in teaching math and doing chemistry. On the side, I do math and teach chemistry, and also play quiz bowl and generally overload myself with work. It's more fun than it sounds, believe me.
Past Classes
(Look at the class archive for more.)
Abstract Algebra in HSSP (2007)
Does high school math seem too simple? Bored with trigonometry and logarithms? Then this is the course for you. Starting ...
Genius and Madness in HSSP (2007)
For whatever reason, great composers of music are often wacky people. In this course, we'll look into some of the ...
High School Chemistry is Wrong in SPLASH (2007)
Ever been told hydrogen only makes one bond? That water has two lone pairs? That carbon can only make four ...
The Riemann Hypothesis in SPLASH (2007)
It's the most important unsolved problem in math, but very few people understand it. The Riemann hypothesis states that the ...
Turning a Pea into the Sun: The Banach-Tarski Paradox in SPLASH (2007)
Sometimes you can get something for nothing. At least, you can when you manipulate a sphere in strange--but volume-preserving!--ways to ...
Abstract Algebra of Geometric Designs in SPLASH (2006)
Lots of patterns have symmetry, and this class will explore that symmetry. We'll cover the basics of abstract algebra, then ...
Turning a pea into the sun: the Banach-Tarski Paradox in SPLASH (2006)
Sometimes you can get something for nothing. At least, you can when you manipulate a sphere in really strange ways ...
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