The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (The MIT Press) - Softcover

Mahajan, Sanjoy

 
9780262526548: The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (The MIT Press)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262526549 ISBN 13: 9780262526548
Verlag: MIT Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.

In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information into a simple picture. Unlike computers, humans depend on insight. Based on the author's fifteen years of teaching at MIT, Cambridge University, and Olin College, The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering shows us how to build insight and find understanding, giving readers tools to help them solve any problem in science and engineering.

To master complexity, we can organize it or discard it. The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering first teaches the tools for organizing complexity, then distinguishes the two paths for discarding complexity: with and without loss of information. Questions and problems throughout the text help readers master and apply these groups of tools. Armed with this three-part toolchest, and without complicated mathematics, readers can estimate the flight range of birds and planes and the strength of chemical bonds, understand the physics of pianos and xylophones, and explain why skies are blue and sunsets are red.

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering will appear in print and online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike license.

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Sanjoy Mahajan is Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College of Engineering and Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the physics faculty. He is the author of Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (MIT Press).

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262526549
ISBN 13 
9780262526548
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
408
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