Hong Sheng Tan
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Hong Sheng Tan

Hong Sheng Tan

Mathematics • Research • Teaching

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Welcome! I am a mathematician, teacher, and writer. On this website, you can find my mathematical work and my efforts to make teaching fun. I design a variety of games that help students learn mathematics through play.

Education

  • PhD Student in Mathematics
    Michigan State University · Sep 2024 – Present

    Advisor: Professor Konstantin Matetski

  • Master of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
    Xiamen University Malaysia · Sep 2024 – Jul 2025

    Program status: not completed

  • Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (Honours)
    Xiamen University Malaysia · Sep 2020 – Jul 2023

    Undergraduate thesis: The Error Term on the Prime Number Theorem

    Advisor: Professor Teo Lee Peng

Research

My current research interests include stochastic PDEs, probability and, functional analysis.

  • Research Assistant in XMUM (guidance by Professor Teo Lee Peng) — during 2024–2025
  • arXiv: Optimal Cosine Polynomials for Riemann Zeta Zero-Free Region (add link when ready)

Teaching

Teaching is a big part of my graduate life. Here are the courses I have taught at Michigan State University:

  • Summer 2025: MTH 124 — Survey of Calculus I
  • Fall 2025: MTH 133 — Calculus II
  • Spring 2026: MTH 235 — Ordinary Differential Equations

MTH 133 student comments:

Teaching with Junior School Students

The mathematics games I design for making mathematics fun. You can ask ChatGPT to create a playable HTML demo for you:

PDF Notes

This note is a summary of the Stochastic PDEs reading course with Professor Konstantin Matetski at Michigan State University, conducted from Summer 2025 to Fall 2025.

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