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Instructor

  * Sanjoy Mahajan

Departments

  * Mathematics
  * Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

January IAP 2008

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

  * Mathematics
      + Calculus
      + Computation
      + Mathematical Analysis

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Street-Fighting Mathematics

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Readings

The readings for each session are designed to be read after attending
that session. For a listing of the topics discussed in each session,
see here: (PDF)

Published Textbook

Buy at MIT Press Mahajan, Sanjoy. Street-Fighting Mathematics: The
Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262514293.

The book is available as a free download (PDF) from MIT Press.

Textbook (Earlier Edition)

An earlier version of the textbook as one file may be found here: (
PDF - 1.3 MB)

Title page and table of contents (PDF)

References (PDF)

SES         TOPICS                          READINGS
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                           Chapter 1 - Dimensions, pp. 3-12 (PDF)
1    Dimensions
                           Questions from lecture 1 (PDF)

                           Chapter 2 - Extreme cases, pp. 13-26 (PDF)
2    Extreme cases
                           Questions and answers from lecture 2 (PDF)

                           Chapter 2 - Extreme cases, pp. 26-30 (PDF)
3    Application: drag
                           Questions from lecture 3 (PDF)

4    More on drag           

                           Chapter 3 - Discretization, pp. 31-40 (PDF
5    Discretization        )

     Application: pendulum Chapter 3 - Discretization, pp. 41-44 (PDF
6    period                )

                           Chapter 4 - Picture proofs, pp. 45-56 (PDF
7    Picture proofs        )

     Taking out the big    Chapter 5 - Taking out the big part, pp.
8    part                  57-79 (PDF)

9    Analogy               Chapter 6 - Analogy, pp. 80-85 (PDF)

10   Application:          Chapter 7 - Operators, pp. 86-90 (PDF)
     operators
11   Application: singing  Handout - approximating logarithms using
     logarithms            musical intervals (PDF)

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Course Info

Instructor

  * Sanjoy Mahajan

Departments

  * Mathematics
  * Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

As Taught In

January IAP 2008

Level

Undergraduate

Topics

  * Mathematics
      + Calculus
      + Computation
      + Mathematical Analysis

Learning Resource Types

menu_book Open Textbooks
assignment Problem Sets
Problem Set Solutions
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