科学与数学mitpress.mit.edu编辑精选
街头格斗数学:不拘一格的实用数学思维
Street-Fighting Mathematics
2016 — 2020,它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页(≥ 50 分)的那次投稿,空心点是没冲上去的投稿,点越大分数越高。
导读
《Street-Fighting Mathematics》是 MIT 教授 Sanjoy Mahajan 所写的一本数学思维小书,教人用量纲分析、极端情形、粗略估算、逐次逼近、类比推理等六种“街头招式”快速求解问题,而不拘泥于严格证明。它源自作者在 MIT 开设的短课程,在 MIT 出版社开放获取页面可免费合法下载全书 PDF。
为什么经久不衰:它教的是可迁移的估算与近似思维(费米问题式直觉),配套免费电子书、EdX 课程和 OCW 资源,多年来反复被推荐,对工程师和科学家至今实用。
HN 评论精选
指出可免费合法下载全书,并推荐作者另一本进阶续作
提醒没注意到的人:在 Open Access 标签页可以合法免费下载全书 PDF。同一作者还有一本更难、更全面的续作《The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering》,也是开放获取。
stiff查看英文原文
For the people who did not notice, in the "Open Access" tab you can download the PDF of the whole book legally and for free. There is also a second book by the same author which is a bit harder and more comprehensive, and also open access: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engineering
概述书中六种核心工具,并指出 EdX 上有存档课程
书中介绍了六种工具:量纲分析、简单极端情形、粗略归并、图像证明、逐次逼近和类比推理,每种都配大量例子,把通用原则与具体应用分开讲解。源自作者在 MIT 的短课程,该课程在 EdX 上仍有存档资料可访问。
seven4查看英文原文
"Mahajan describes six tools: dimensional analysis, easy cases, lumping, picture proofs, successive approximation, and reasoning by analogy. Illustrating each tool with numerous examples, he carefully separates the tool—the general principle—from the particular application so that the reader can most easily grasp the tool itself to use on problems of particular interest. Street-Fighting Mathematics grew out of a short course taught by the author at MIT" That short course looks like its still available on edx - though it's archived - I seem to be able to access the material. https://www.edx.org/course/street-fighting-math
作者的教学课程质量极高,值得反复观看
我是通过 Mahajan 在 MIT OCW 上的 Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering 课程认识他的,研究生期间看了不下六遍。他还有一个基于这本书的 OCW 课程。
dls2016查看英文原文
I discovered Prof Mahajan through his "Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering" course on MIT OCW. I must have watched it six times during graduate school. He also has an OCW course based on this book. http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/www/
这门课的趣味在于刻意训练粗略估算,答案太精确反而扣分
斯坦福有一门基于 Mahajan 工作的优秀物理课 Back-of-the-Envelope Physics。第一天我们就算了一个婴儿每天该喂多少食物——假设婴儿是半径 1 米的球形热辐射体……而且习题答案如果太精确还会被扣分。
hardmath123查看英文原文
Stanford has an excellent physics course, "Back-of-the-Envelope Physics," based on Mahajan's work. On the first day we worked out how much to feed a baby every day assuming they are spherical heat emitters of radius 1 meter... (also, you got points off the problem sets if your answers were _too_ precise).
亲历者强烈推荐这门课
这是我在 MIT 上过的最喜欢的课程,没有之一。我太喜欢它了,以至于我大学时创办的 CTF 战队都以这位教授的课程名 The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering 命名。强烈推荐。
borski查看英文原文
This was easily my favorite course at MIT, and there were a lot I liked. In fact, I liked this course so much that the CTF team I started back in college was named "The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering," the name of the course taught by this professor / that used this book. Highly recommend.
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