Lawrence Weinstein, John Adam

Guesstimation

Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Enables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate virtually anything - quickly - using plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. This book presents an array of estimation problems that range from devilishly simple to quite sophisticated and from real-world concerns to silly ones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• with French flaps
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 116mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780691129495
• ISBN-10: 0691129495
• Artikelnr.: 23345983

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Weinstein is professor of physics at Old Dominion University. John A. Adam is professor of mathematics at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural World (Princeton) and the coeditor of A Survey of Models for Tumor-Immune System Dynamics.