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Sanjoy Mahajan Street-Fighting Mathematics The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England by Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz, Paul Horowitz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Street-Fighting Mathematics teaches a crucial skill that the traditional science curriculum fails to develop: how to obtain order of magnitude estimates for a broad variety of problems. This book will be invaluable to anyone wishing to become a better informed professional. 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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- Author
- Thomas C. Hayes, Paul Horowitz, Paul Horowitz
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521377096
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (54 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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