Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (963 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691129495 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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P. Kim said Helps you guess better. This book teaches you how to guess better through systematically, by making assumptions and checking them. Then adjusting those assumptionsif the numbers are way off. I find the technique quite useful and I believe schools should teach students how to guestimate.The issue that I have with the book is that it does not talk much about the limitations of g. "Great when you are thinking on your feet" according to Srikanth Madduri. This books has been a life changer. I always wondered how do CEOs, Product Managers, etc who deal with numbers make guesses that are near perfect. They have this ability to make those guesses. I always wondered how.I stumbled upon this book by chance and the title seemed interesting. I bought this one and it was a life changing experience. This book tea. G. Knoop said brilliant and fun. Some of us are older than we want to admit and have to get back into math. This book was recommended by a colleague at Johns Hopkins University. So I dove in. It was worth the read. It has softly reintroduced me to mathematical problem solving. The authors were great. Humorists and instructors. If you were hoping to get a review of differential equation
It includes a handy appendix summarizing the few formulas and basic science concepts needed, and its small size and French-fold design make it conveniently portable. Illustrated with humorous pen-and-ink sketches, Guesstimation will delight popular-math enthusiasts and is ideal for the classroom.. Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten! The ability to estimate is an important skill in daily life. More and more leading businesses today use estimation questions in interviews to test applicants' abilities to think on their feet. The authors show how easy it is to derive useful ballpark estimates by breaking complex problems into simpler, more manageable ones--and how there can be many paths to the right answer. Guesstimation enables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate virtually anything--quickly--using plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. The book is written in a question-and-answer format with lots of hints along the way. Lawrence Weinstein and John Adam present an eclectic array of estimation problems that range from devilishly simple to quite sophisticated and from serious real-world concerns to downright silly ones. How long would it take a running faucet to fill the inverted dome of the Capitol? What i
Lawrence Weinstein is professor of physics 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. . John A. Adam is professor of mathematics at Old Dominion University
And that's the aim of Guesstimation. Never again will you take a newspaper figure at face value without feeling the need, and confidence, to guesstimate your own figure."--Matthew Killeya, New Scientist"Guesstimation is both enlightening and entertaining. The results are sometimes surprising."--Robert Matthews, BBC Focus Magazine"Guesstimation is a left-brain book that helps you approximate answers to the types of questions actually asked in some job interviews today."--Peter Coy, BusinessWeek"A delightful account of mathematical approximation, which instills the beauty and power of the back-of-the-envelope calculation. There's very little not to like. The book can be for everybody, 'higher-up professionals' who might know math but not physics, as well as students wrestling with 'word problems.' Teach