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035			_a(OCoLC)1045530751
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aMahajan, Sanjoy, _d1969-
245	1	0	_aStreet-Fighting Mathematics : _bThe Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving / _cSanjoy Mahajan ; foreword by Carver A. Mead.
264		1	_aCambridge, Mass. : _bMIT Press, _c2010.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2018
264		4	_c©2010.
300			_a1 online resource: _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aForeword -- Preface -- 1 Dimensions -- 2 Easy cases -- 3 Lumping -- 4 Pictorial proofs -- 5 Taking out the big part -- 6 Analogy -- Bibliography -- Index.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"In Street-Fighting Mathematics, Sanjoy Mahajan builds, sharpens, and demonstrates tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty, opportunistic problem solving across diverse fields of knowledge - from mathematics to management. Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool - the general principle - from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest." "Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT for students ranging from first-year undergraduates to graduate students ready for careers in physics, mathematics, management, electrical engineering, computer science, and biology. They benefited from an approach that avoided rigor and taught them how to use mathematics to solve real problems."--Jacket.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aProblem solving. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01077890
650		7	_aHypothesis. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00966093
650		7	_aEstimation theory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00915531
650		7	_aMATHEMATICS _xEssays. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aMATHEMATICS _xReference. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aMATHEMATICS _xPre-Calculus. _2bisacsh
650		6	_aTheorie de l'estimation.
650		6	_aHypothese.
650		6	_aResolution de probleme.
650		2	_aProblem Solving
650		0	_aEstimation theory.
650		0	_aHypothesis.
650		0	_aProblem solving.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/60824/
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