Summer Institute for Mathematics at the University of Washington

Summer Institute for Mathematics at the University of Washington

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Jennifer Quinn

Jennifer Quinn earned her BA, MS, and PhD from Williams College, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. She recently joined the faculty at the University of Washington, Tacoma where she is a Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences working to build a mathematics curriculum on the expanding campus. Prior to joining UWT, she served as Executive Director of the Association for Women in Mathematics and before that, spent more than a decade as a faculty member at Occidental College in Los Angeles. An award winning teacher, author, and scholar, Jenny thinks that beautiful proofs are as much art as science. Simplicity, elegance, and transparency should be the driving principles. Simply understanding mathematical truth is not sufficient. Instead, strive to put mathematics into a concrete framework where truth becomes apparent and ideas quickly generalize. Jenny will guide an exploration of mathematical truths by the basic combinatorial techniques of counting and matching.

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