The art of insight in science and engineering : : mastering complexity / / Sanjoy Mahajan.
Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (409 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Brief Contents
- Preface
- Values for Backs of Envelopes
- Part I: Organizing Complexity
- 1 Divide and conquer
- 2 Abstraction
- Part II: Discarding Complexity Without Losing Information
- 3 Symmetry and Conservation
- 4 Proportional Reasoning
- 5 Dimensions
- Part III: Discarding Complexity with Loss of Information
- 6 Lumping
- 7 Probabilistic Reasoning
- 8 Easy Cases
- 9 Spring Models
- Bon Voyage: Long-Lasting Learning
- Bibliography
- Index
- Contents
- Preface
- Values for Backs of Envelopes
- Part I: Organizing Complexity
- Divide and Conquer
- 2 Abstraction
- Part II: Discarding Complexity Without Losing Information
- 3 Symmetry and Conservation
- 4 Proportional Reasoning
- 5 Dimensions
- Part III: Discarding Complexity with Loss of Information
- 6 Lumping
- 7 Probabilistic Reasoning
- 8 Easy Cases
- 9 Spring Models
- Bon Voyage: Long-lasting Learning
- Bibliography
- Index.