Splash Biography

JIM TAO, Princeton junior studying mathematics

Major: Mathematics

College/Employer: Princeton

Year of Graduation: 2014

Brief Biographical Sketch:

I was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but when I was 4 years old my family and I moved to Brea, California, where I lived until I graduated high school and matriculated to Princeton. As an intellectually curious person, life before college was like http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
but hey, I survived. In college I studied a number of subjects in depth, including economic game theory, theoretical computer science, mathematical physics, and probability theory.

Past Classes

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M97: Probabilities of Five Card Poker Hands in Splash Spring 13 (Apr. 27, 2013)

Derivation of the five card poker hand probabilities (single pair, two pairs, triple, full house, four of a kind, straight, flush, straight flush, royal flush, none of the above), with explanation.