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

• Category: Mathematics
• Author: Sanjoy Mahajan
• License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US
• Pages: 152 pages
• File type: PDF (153 pages), ePub, Kindle, etc.

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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.

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.

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.

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