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This is useful, but pretty standard undergrad material. There are more interesting OCW courses, such as Street Fighting Mathematics: This course teaches the ar
by SandB0x 16y ago
This is useful, but pretty standard undergrad material. There are more interesting OCW courses, such as Street Fighting Mathematics:
This course teaches the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact calculation. Techniques include extreme-cases reasoning, dimensional analysis, successive approximation, discretization, generalization, and pictorial analysis. Applications include mental calculation, solid geometry, musical intervals, logarithms, integration, infinite series, solitaire, and differential equations. (No epsilons or deltas are harmed by taking this course.)
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fighting-mathematics-january-iap-2008/readings/ http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fightin...
- edge17 16y agocool, are there any vids for this course?
- iamanet 16y agoNope there are no videos but the notes are simple to understand since they are very clearly explained.
- arethuza 16y ago"singing logarithms" - just like Anathem!
- viae 16y agoNote that the course's textbook, which is also called Street Fighting Mathematics, is available via Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12156 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&... Its a link on the left side under the picture.
- mathgladiator 16y agoSimple put: awesome this reminds me of when I took partial differential equations where the instructor said: "this shit is really hard, so we are going to learn to guess the solution so we can even have a chance at getting close to the solution".