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

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

Author(s): Sanjoy Mahajan
Edition: New
Publisher: The MIT Press
Year: 2010

Language: English
Pages: 153
Tags: Математика;Прочие разделы математики;Тесты

Brief contents......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
1 Dimensions......Page 18
2 Easy cases......Page 30
3 Lumping......Page 48
4 Pictorial proofs......Page 74
5 Taking out the big part......Page 94
6 Analogy......Page 116
Bibliography......Page 140
Index......Page 144