Street-fighting mathematics : : the art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving / / Sanjoy Mahajan ; foreword by Carver A. Mead.
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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