Free eBook “Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving” by Sanjoy Mahajan.

Book Description

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.

Contents

• Dimensions
• Easy cases
• Lumping
• Pictorial proofs
• Taking out the big part
• Analogy

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