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Perhaps you could start from here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics The b
by quanto 5y ago
Perhaps you could start from here:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/street-fighting-mathematics
The book attempts to combine approximations with first principles to get at a desired conclusion. These resulting approximations are surprisingly accurate. This kind of work (a more difficult variant of) is usually taught in the first year of graduate school.
- patrick451 5y agoWhat might such a gradschool course be called? This seems like a useful thing to audit at the local university.
- quanto 5y agoIn my case, it was called "Physical Mathematics." An advanced undergraduate course in mathematical modeling could cover some material mentioned here.