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The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (2014) [pdf]
- ivan_ah 10y agoAn earlier book from the same author: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics
- nrubin 10y agoI took a version of this class (called The Art of Approximation) with Dr. Mahajan when he was a visiting professor at Olin College. The course helped me become fearless about tackling a broad range of math problems I knew little about, and has helped me in countless real life situations from financial planning to major work decisions. Also, it's a great intro on good ways to nail PM interviews, at least at Google (where I now work, thanks in no small part to the lessons from this class). If you have a spare few hours, read this book or take his classes on edX. It'll absolutely change your intuition for numbers.
- mathattack 10y agoThank you for sharing the first hand experience. When I see book pdfs posted here, my first question is "Did anyone actually read or go through this?" Is it really just a few hours to go through it? :-)
- Aeolus98 10y agoOh cool. I'm actually in Olin now, and even better, taking his class as I type this post. Art of approximation https://imgur.com/a/OvDzl https://imgur.com/a/OvDzl I'll pass along any cool questions.
- denzil_correa 10y ago> it's a great intro on good ways to nail PM interviews, at least at Google (where I now work, thanks in no small part to the lessons from this class). Could you give an example? It would be great to know why you say so.
- mfn 10y agoIf you don't mind me asking, any other resources you found useful for PM interviews?
- iamcreasy 10y agoWhat class is that? Is any similar MOOC course available?
- cJ0th 10y agoWhat a great find! I didn't even dream of a book like this. Thank you for sharing!
- geohump 10y agoThe irony of a an article claiming to master complexity while using one of the worst choices of information dissemination. PDF's. Palpable.
- jasonkostempski 10y agoBecause it's a book, not an article.
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- danso 10y agoBesides it being a book, not sure what the irony is here. PDF is a poor way to disseminate information via the web, but excellent for distributing information in a container that you envision as uniform and universal -- in this case, paper. The responsive variable nature of a browser window can sometimes do screwy things to a well planned layout.
- andrzejsz 10y agoHow come this book is available on download I mean what about copyright?
- detaro 10y agoIt's under a license that allows freely sharing it for non-commercial purposes.
- HCIdivision17 10y agoI've wondered about this: when it says non-commercial purposes, does that mean me downloading a copy to read for my work, or me printing and selling? I haven't any problem buying it, since it's useful for my job, but that distinction has been a bit fuzzy to me (and I'll normally just err on the side of buy, just to be safe).
- denzil_correa 10y agoCommercial would mean you make a gain from distribution of the book. Money can be one of the gains.
- HCIdivision17 10y agoThanks - distribution vs consumption always mix me up with the copyright rules.
- nxzero 10y agoOn the copyright page of the PDF of the book it states it is: >> "licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–Noncommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International License."
- christouphair 10y agoWhat are the prerequisites to understand this book? I feel very intimidated by some equations.
- sn9 10y agoComfort with freshman physics and math is really all that's required. You can always review those first.
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- clm 10y agoI went to graduate school at Caltech; my time there intersected with SM for about a year, but I only learned about that when he had already graduated. In one of the rooms in the physics building (E. Bridge), there used to be a few shelves with old theses. While checking them out one day (probably trying to kill time before a seminar), I came across Sanjoy's thesis. It was a curious little thing, unlike any of the other theses I had seen---a bit of a hybrid between a PhD thesis and a textbook, and remarkably, very readable. That thesis was, apparently, the first version of his now famous book, Street-Fighting Mathematics. After getting lost in it for a while, I went and asked the administrative assistant if I could get a copy, and she said nobody cares about those volumes on the shelves, and I could just take it if I wanted. I still have that copy with me. One year I attempted to audit the (somewhat legendary) class that the book part of SM's thesis was based on---"Order of magnitude physics", taught by P. Goldreich and S. Phinney. Unfortunately, the lectures were in the morning, and I managed to wake up early enough only a few times, and dropped out afterwards. I continued to collect material on related topics over the years, and am still hoping to use them some day in a course, together with SM's books.
- sn9 10y agoAfter a bit of Googling, I believe I have found a copy of this thesis [0]. [0] http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-letter.pdf http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-lett...
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