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Re: [Phys-l] Street-Fighting Mathematics

From: Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:02:14 -0500

Richard Hake wrote:

The 29 March 2010 edition of "MIT news" carries a report "Rough calculations: Sanjoy Mahajan's (2010) new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving"

/snip/

Amazon.com information at <http://tinyurl.com/yhmmm2h>.

What a helpful note!

I see Amazon noticed
Guesstimation,
Back-of-the-Envelope Physics, and
How to Measure Anything
by various others, in a similar vein.

Brian W

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