ESP Biography



PETER HAINE, Foodie, runner, artist, and of course a math nerd.



Major: Mathematics (18)

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2016

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Peter grew up in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire and lived there until coming to MIT during the fall of 2012. He is a junior majoring in pure mathematics. He loves both doing mathematics and teaching mathematics. Peter's academic interests center around education and algebraic topology, specifically homotopy theory. His goal is to become a math professor. He’s a foodie, Renaissance man, and a bit of a philosopher who enjoys cooking, hiking, reading, running, and art.



Past Classes

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M9013: Why the earth looks flat, map-making, and Archimedes' greatest discovery in Splash 2014 (Nov. 22 - 23, 2014)
Not so long ago almost everybody thought that the world was flat. Indeed, the earth looks flat locally, but we know today that the earth is round. How can our round world be made out of flat pieces? We'll use that language of calculus and take a tour through the wonderful world of differential geometry to answer this question, as well as others like how to make a flat map of the world. We'll also use differential geometry to rigorously explain an observation that Archimedes made which he thought was so great, it was even engraved on his tombstone.