Splash Biography
PATRICK COLLINS, ESP Teacher
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Major: Computer Science and Philosophy College/Employer: UChicago Year of Graduation: 2015 |
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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)M1327: What things can we solve, and how fast? in Splash Fall 2014 (Oct. 04, 2014)
Are there unanswerable questions? If you could guess the right answer every time, could you finish your homework faster? Is it harder to discover something new, or to verify someone else's discovery?
Computer scientists have thought long and hard about questions like these. In this class, we'll cover a broad overview of the most important discoveries that they have made, and end on the most important open problem in modern mathematics -- P vs NP.
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