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Street-fighting mathematics The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic P…
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

"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…

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1 online resource (xv, 134 pages) : illustrations
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Street-fighting mathematics The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic P…
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

"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…

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The art of insight in science and engineering :mastering complexity
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262325233
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1 online resource (xvi, 389 pages) :illustrations
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Gaia in turmoil :climate change, biodepletion, and earth ethics in an age of …
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Crist, Eileen,Rinker, H. Bruce.

Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262258692
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1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) :illustrations
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Street-fighting mathematics :the art of educated guessing and opportunistic p…
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Mahajan, Sanjoy,

"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…

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9780262265881
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1 online resource (xv, 134 pages) :illustrations
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Scientists debate Gaia :the next century
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Schneider, Stephen Henry.

The Gaia hypothesis holds that the Earth's physical and biological processes are linked to form a complex self-regulating system, and that life has affected this over time. This title examines both this theory, as well as other Gaian processes.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262283182
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1 online resource (xvii, 377 pages) :illustrations, maps
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