Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
by Sanjoy Mahajan
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An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.Tags
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Kind of pillow-fighting rather than street-fighting. Not much kicking and punching, rather a very primary training in modelling and estimation problems. Nothing much in it for a scientist or engineer.
Slim but college-level and technical, intriguingly covering dimensional analysis, easy-case method, lumping, pictorial proofs, big-part removal, and analogical reasoning.
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Sanjoy Mahajan is Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College of Engineering and Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the physics show more faculty. He is the author of Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving [MIT Press]. show less
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