Splash Biography

LOUIS WASSERMAN, UChicago math student.

Major: Not available.

College/Employer: Not available.

Year of Graduation: Not available.

Brief Biographical Sketch:

Louis is a rising third-year math major at UChicago. He worked for Google over the past summer.

Past Classes

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M669: What Is A Number? in Splash! Fall 2010 (Oct. 02, 2010)

A caveman sits in a cave. There are some rocks at his feet. He picks them up, one at a time: one, another one, another one... How did we get from there to all of the different things we call numbers today? What would the caveman have thought of a number like $$\frac{2}{3}$$? What about $$\pi$$?

M410: Introduction to Complexity Theory in Splash! Fall 2009 (Oct. 03, 2009)

Computers work lightning-fast, but are there problems simply too difficult for them? Learn about complexity theory, the study of how difficult it is for computers to solve mathematical problems, and which problems might simply take millenia to solve -- and about a question with a million-dollar prize for the first person to solve it.

M412: Introduction to Algorithms in Splash! Fall 2009 (Oct. 03, 2009)

Had some programming experience? Algorithms is the study of how to solve computational problems efficiently, without focusing on the programming aspect, and it's a rich area of study with a tasty mathematical flavor. We'll cover a variety of basic algorithms, ranging from depth-first search to A* and dynamic programming.