Street-Fighting Mathematics (Record no. 2563)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262514293 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 510 |
| Item number | MAH |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sanjoy Mahajan |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Street-Fighting Mathematics |
| Remainder of title | The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Sanjoy Mahajan |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | The MIT Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | Mar 05, 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Page number | 152 Pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.<br/><br/>In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don’t just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap even though it may land us on a correct result. Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions. This engaging book is an antidote to the rigor mortis brought on by too much mathematical rigor, teaching us how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation.<br/><br/>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. |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6183 DT 22/5/2025 | 510 MAH | 0007456 | 03.06.2025 | 35.00 | 03.06.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6183 DT 22/5/2025 | 510 MAH | 0007457 | 03.06.2025 | 35.00 | 03.06.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6183 DT 22/5/2025 | 510 MAH | 0007458 | 03.06.2025 | 35.00 | 03.06.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6183 DT 22/5/2025 | 510 MAH | 0007459 | 03.06.2025 | 35.00 | 03.06.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6183 DT 22/5/2025 | 510 MAH | 0007460 | 03.06.2025 | 35.00 | 03.06.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 03.06.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6183 DT 22/5/2025 | 510 MAH | 0007461 | 03.06.2025 | 35.00 | 03.06.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 02.07.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6208 dt 02-07-2025 | 510 MAH | 0007549 | 02.07.2025 | 35.00 | 02.07.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 02.07.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6208 dt 02-07-2025 | 510 MAH | 0007550 | 02.07.2025 | 35.00 | 02.07.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 02.07.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6208 dt 02-07-2025 | 510 MAH | 0007551 | 02.07.2025 | 35.00 | 02.07.2025 | USD | Books | |||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | IIITDM Kurnool | IIITDM Kurnool | SCIENCES | 02.07.2025 | New India Book Agency | 35.00 | 6208 dt 10-06-2025 | 510 MAH | 0007555 | 02.07.2025 | 35.00 | 02.07.2025 | USD | Books |