Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving - Brossura

Mahajan, Sanjoy

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ISBN 10: 026251429X ISBN 13: 9780262514293

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 2010

Riassunto

An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.

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Recensione:

"'Too much mathematical rigor teaches rigor mortis.' This is Sanjoy Mahajan's way of saying 'failure to make timely approximations leads to algebraic paralysis.' Approximations are essential in the design process, and his book legitimizes, accelerates, and extends the methods that students eventually have to learn on their own anyway." --R. David Middlebrook, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

L'autore:

Sanjoy Mahajan studied mathematics at the University of Oxford and received a PhD in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is now Associate Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory and a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Before coming to MIT, he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Physics in the University of Cambridge.

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• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 026251429X
• ISBN 13: 9780262514293
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 152