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'''Sanjoy Mahajan''', <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahajan Mahajan from Wikipedia]</ref><br/>
a British American physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist <ref>[http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/www/cv.pdf Sanjoy Mahajan CV] (pdf)</ref>. He is associate professor of applied science and engineering at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_W._Olin_College_of_Engineering 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], with interests in improving physics and mathematics teaching and in writing textbooks, supported by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatsby_Charitable_Foundation 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], where his advisors were [[Mathematician#SPhinney|Sterl Phinney]], [[Mathematician#JHopfield|John Hopfield]] and [[Mathematician#CAMead|Carver Mead]]. The thesis included [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysics theoretical biophysics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_number_theory probabilistic number theory], and a draft textbook on order-of-magnitude physics <ref>[[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, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], advisors [[Mathematician#SPhinney|Sterl Phinney]], [[Mathematician#JHopfield|John Hopfield]] and [[Mathematician#CAMead|Carver Mead]], [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-letter.pdf pdf]</ref>.
He is author of ''Street-Fighting Mathematics'' <ref>[[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2010'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]</ref> and ''The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering'' <ref>[[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engineering The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]</ref>.
=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'' <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref>,
initially written in [[LISP|Common Lisp]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1985, in 1986 rewritten in [[C]] and in 2005 released under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL]] <ref>[http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/othello/bill-1.0.tar.gz BILL: An Othello program released under the GPL] from [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ Sanjoy Mahajan's Home Page]</ref>.
''Bill 3.0'' applied [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference Bayesian learning] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discriminant_function_analysis discriminant functions] that [[Automated Tuning|automatically combines]] [[Evaluation|evaluation]] features <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/A_pattern_classification_approach_to_evaluation_function_learning/6591158 A pattern classification approach to evaluation function learning]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-173, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref> <ref>[http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/bill.html Bill] from [http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/ The strong learning Othello Programs], [http://satirist.org/learn-game/ Machine Learning in Games] by [[Jay Scott]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mahajan:Sanjoy dblp: Sanjoy Mahajan]</ref> <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Sanjoy-Mahajan/e/B00385T6WC/ Books By Sanjoy Mahajan, Amazon.com]</ref>
==1986 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f7ab/15736ecc79452aa4546cf8d7f5aa94d6afa0.pdf pdf]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0004370288900768 A Pattern Classification Approach to Evaluation Function Learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 36, No. 1
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Corrective-and-reinforcement-learning-for-speech-Lee-Mahajan/ea82f514e0e00586f00402a4df2cd0885b4e13c5 Corrective and Reinforcement Learning for Speaker-independent continuous Speech Recognition]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1989.html EUROSPEECH 1989]
==1990 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437029090068B The Development of a World Class Othello Program]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 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, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], advisors [[Mathematician#SPhinney|Sterl Phinney]], [[Mathematician#JHopfield|John Hopfield]] and [[Mathematician#CAMead|Carver Mead]], [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-letter.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2001'''). ''A Radical Experiment in Mathematics Teaching''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ihpst/benezet.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2001'''). ''Physics students learn nothing, so try history of science''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ihpst/rote-physics.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2001'''). ''Learning proof and questioning lies''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ihpst/proof.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2002'''). ''Estimating light bending using order-of-magnitude physics''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/teaching/approximation/light-bending.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2004'''). ''Physics Education Research: Or it’s so hard to find good help these days''. [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0405006 arXiv:physics/0405006]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], [https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/david-w-hogg.html David W. Hogg] ('''2004'''). ''Introductory physics: The new scholasticism''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0412107 arXiv:physics/0412107]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=10EI2q8AAAAJ&hl=en Richard R. Hake] ('''2005'''). ''Is it finally time for a physics counterpart of the Benezet–Berman math experiment of the 1930’s?'' [https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512202v1 arXiv:physics/0512202v1] <ref>[http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=1477249 Benezet's experiment: A model for physics teaching] by [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], [http://mathforum.org/ The Math Forum @ Drexel University], June 23, 2000</ref>
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2005'''). ''Estimating gas mileage: An example of order-of-magnitude physics''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512209 arXiv:physics/0512209]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2007'''). ''Teaching for transfer''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1854 arXiv:0704.1854]
==2010 ...==
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2010'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press] <ref>[http://streetfightingmath.com/ Street-Fighting Mathematics]</ref>
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2012'''). ''Numbersight: A Street-Fighting Mathematician Teaches How to Make Better Decisions''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Books Prometheus Publishing]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engineering The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
=External Links=
* [http://www.olin.edu/faculty/profile/sanjoy-mahajan/ Faculty Profile for Sanjoy Mahajan, Ph.D. | Olin College]
* [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ Sanjoy Mahajan's Home Page]
* [http://streetfightingmath.com/author.html Sanjoy Mahajan @ Street-Fighting Mathematics]
* [http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/www/ Sanjoy Mahajan @ MIT]
=References=
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'''Sanjoy Mahajan''', <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahajan Mahajan from Wikipedia]</ref><br/>
a British American physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist <ref>[http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/www/cv.pdf Sanjoy Mahajan CV] (pdf)</ref>. He is associate professor of applied science and engineering at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_W._Olin_College_of_Engineering 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], with interests in improving physics and mathematics teaching and in writing textbooks, supported by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatsby_Charitable_Foundation 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], where his advisors were [[Mathematician#SPhinney|Sterl Phinney]], [[Mathematician#JHopfield|John Hopfield]] and [[Mathematician#CAMead|Carver Mead]]. The thesis included [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysics theoretical biophysics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_number_theory probabilistic number theory], and a draft textbook on order-of-magnitude physics <ref>[[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, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], advisors [[Mathematician#SPhinney|Sterl Phinney]], [[Mathematician#JHopfield|John Hopfield]] and [[Mathematician#CAMead|Carver Mead]], [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-letter.pdf pdf]</ref>.
He is author of ''Street-Fighting Mathematics'' <ref>[[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2010'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]</ref> and ''The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering'' <ref>[[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engineering The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]</ref>.
=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'' <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref>,
initially written in [[LISP|Common Lisp]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1985, in 1986 rewritten in [[C]] and in 2005 released under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL]] <ref>[http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/othello/bill-1.0.tar.gz BILL: An Othello program released under the GPL] from [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ Sanjoy Mahajan's Home Page]</ref>.
''Bill 3.0'' applied [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference Bayesian learning] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discriminant_function_analysis discriminant functions] that [[Automated Tuning|automatically combines]] [[Evaluation|evaluation]] features <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/A_pattern_classification_approach_to_evaluation_function_learning/6591158 A pattern classification approach to evaluation function learning]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-173, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref> <ref>[http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/bill.html Bill] from [http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/ The strong learning Othello Programs], [http://satirist.org/learn-game/ Machine Learning in Games] by [[Jay Scott]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Mahajan:Sanjoy dblp: Sanjoy Mahajan]</ref> <ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Sanjoy-Mahajan/e/B00385T6WC/ Books By Sanjoy Mahajan, Amazon.com]</ref>
==1986 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f7ab/15736ecc79452aa4546cf8d7f5aa94d6afa0.pdf pdf]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0004370288900768 A Pattern Classification Approach to Evaluation Function Learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 36, No. 1
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Corrective-and-reinforcement-learning-for-speech-Lee-Mahajan/ea82f514e0e00586f00402a4df2cd0885b4e13c5 Corrective and Reinforcement Learning for Speaker-independent continuous Speech Recognition]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1989.html EUROSPEECH 1989]
==1990 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437029090068B The Development of a World Class Othello Program]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 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, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], advisors [[Mathematician#SPhinney|Sterl Phinney]], [[Mathematician#JHopfield|John Hopfield]] and [[Mathematician#CAMead|Carver Mead]], [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-letter.pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2001'''). ''A Radical Experiment in Mathematics Teaching''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ihpst/benezet.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2001'''). ''Physics students learn nothing, so try history of science''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ihpst/rote-physics.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2001'''). ''Learning proof and questioning lies''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ihpst/proof.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2002'''). ''Estimating light bending using order-of-magnitude physics''. [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/teaching/approximation/light-bending.pdf pdf]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2004'''). ''Physics Education Research: Or it’s so hard to find good help these days''. [http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0405006 arXiv:physics/0405006]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], [https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/david-w-hogg.html David W. Hogg] ('''2004'''). ''Introductory physics: The new scholasticism''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0412107 arXiv:physics/0412107]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=10EI2q8AAAAJ&hl=en Richard R. Hake] ('''2005'''). ''Is it finally time for a physics counterpart of the Benezet–Berman math experiment of the 1930’s?'' [https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512202v1 arXiv:physics/0512202v1] <ref>[http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=1477249 Benezet's experiment: A model for physics teaching] by [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], [http://mathforum.org/ The Math Forum @ Drexel University], June 23, 2000</ref>
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2005'''). ''Estimating gas mileage: An example of order-of-magnitude physics''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512209 arXiv:physics/0512209]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2007'''). ''Teaching for transfer''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1854 arXiv:0704.1854]
==2010 ...==
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2010'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press] <ref>[http://streetfightingmath.com/ Street-Fighting Mathematics]</ref>
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2012'''). ''Numbersight: A Street-Fighting Mathematician Teaches How to Make Better Decisions''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_Books Prometheus Publishing]
* [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engineering The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press MIT Press]
=External Links=
* [http://www.olin.edu/faculty/profile/sanjoy-mahajan/ Faculty Profile for Sanjoy Mahajan, Ph.D. | Olin College]
* [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ Sanjoy Mahajan's Home Page]
* [http://streetfightingmath.com/author.html Sanjoy Mahajan @ Street-Fighting Mathematics]
* [http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/www/ Sanjoy Mahajan @ MIT]
=References=
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