Sanjoy+Mahajan

a physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist with dual US and UK citizenship. He is associate professor of applied science and engineering at [|Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering] and visiting associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before, he was a physics lecturer at the [|University of Cambridge], with interests in improving physics and mathematics teaching and in writing textbooks, supported by the [|Gatsby Charitable Trust]. Sanjoy Mahajan holds a B.Sc. in physics from Stanford University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in physics in 1998 from [|California Institute of Technology], where his advisors were Sterl Phinney, John Hopfield and Carver Mead. The thesis included [|theoretical biophysics], [|probabilistic number theory], and a draft textbook on order-of-magnitude physics. He is author of //Street-Fighting Mathematics// and //The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering//. || toc =Bill= During the mid and late 80s, along with Kai-Fu Lee, Sanjoy Mahajan co-authored the at that time world class Othello program //Bill//, initially written in Common Lisp at Carnegie Mellon University in 1985, in 1986 rewritten in C and in 2005 released under the GPL. //Bill 3.0// applied [|Bayesian learning] of [|discriminant functions] that automaticly combines evaluation features.
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=Selected Publications=

1986 ...

 * Kai-Fu Lee, Sanjoy Mahajan (**1986**). //[|BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]//. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Kai-Fu Lee, Sanjoy Mahajan (**1988**). //[|A Pattern Classification Approach to Evaluation Function Learning]//. [|Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 36, No. 1
 * Kai-Fu Lee, Sanjoy Mahajan (**1989**). //Corrective and Reinforcement Learning for Speaker-independent continuous Speech Recognition//. [|EUROSPEECH 1989]

1990 ...

 * Kai-Fu Lee, Sanjoy Mahajan (**1990**). //[|The Development of a World Class Othello Program]//. [|Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1
 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**1998**). //Order of Magnitude Physics - A Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod and to the Density of Prime Numbers//. Ph.D. thesis, [|California Institute of Technology], advisors Sterl Phinney, John Hopfield and Carver Mead, [|pdf]

2000 ...

 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**2001**). //A Radical Experiment in Mathematics Teaching//. [|pdf]
 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**2001**). //Physics students learn nothing, so try history of science//. [|pdf]
 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**2001**). //Learning proof and questioning lies//. [|pdf]
 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**2002**). //Estimating light bending using order-of-magnitude physics//. [|pdf]
 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**2004**). //Physics Education Research: Or it’s so hard to find good help these days//. [|arXiv:physics/0405006]
 * Sanjoy Mahajan, [|David W. Hogg] (**2004**). //Introductory physics: The new scholasticism//. [|arXiv:physics/0412107]
 * Sanjoy Mahajan, [|Richard R. Hake] (**2005**). //Is it finally time for a physics counterpart of the Benezet–Berman math experiment of the 1930’s?// [|arXiv:physics/0512202v1]

2010 ...

 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**2010**). //[|Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving]//. [|MIT Press]
 * Sanjoy Mahajan (**2014**). //[|The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering]//. [|MIT Press]

=External Links=
 * [|Sanjoy Mahajan's Home Page]
 * [|Sanjoy Mahajan @ Street-Fighting Mathematics]
 * [|Sanjoy Mahajan @ MIT]

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