[Phys-l] Street-Fighting Mathematics

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

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" [Dizikes (2010)], accessible by 
clicking on 
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/street-fight-0329.html> and/or 
<http://tinyurl.com/y9dcsw8>.

Sanjoy <http://mit.edu/sanjoy/www/>, developer of the famous Benezet 
Centre <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/>, is 
currently the  associate director for teaching initiatives at MIT's 
Teaching and Learning Laboratory <http://mit.edu/tll/>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
Honorary Member, ARFU (Academic Reference Freaks United)
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.]
Dizikes, P. 2010. "Rough calculations: Sanjoy Mahajan's new book, 
Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated 
guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving,' MITnews 29 March; 
online at 
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/street-fight-0329.html> and/or 
<http://tinyurl.com/y9dcsw8>.

Mahajan, S. 2010. "Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated 
Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving." Forward by Carver Mead 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carver_Mead>.  MIT Press, publisher's 
information at 
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12156>. 
Amazon.com information at <http://tinyurl.com/yhmmm2h>.