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Street-fighting mathematics : the art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving / Sanjoy Mahajan ; foreword by Carver A. Mead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahajan, Sanjoy, 1969-
- Mead, Carver, author of introduction, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Problem solving.
- Hypothesis.
- Estimation theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2010.
- Cambridge, MA, USA MIT Press 2010
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Brief contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Dimensions
- 2 Easy cases
- 3 Lumping
- 4 Pictorial proofs
- 5 Taking out the big part
- 6 Analogy
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-SA
- Description based on e-publication, viewed on March 10, 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9786612541865
- 9781282541863
- 1282541862
- 9780262265881
- 0262265885
- OCLC:
- 608692427
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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