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Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking - Couverture souple

Grimvall, Göran

 
9780801897177: Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801897173 ISBN 13 : 9780801897177
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Göran Grimvall is determined to help mere mortals understand how scientists get to the kernel of perplexing problems. Entertaining and enlightening, his latest book uses examples from sports, literature, and nature--as well as from the varied worlds of science--to illustrate how scientists make sense of and explain the world around us.

Grimvall's fun-to-read essays and easy-to-follow examples detail how order-of-magnitude estimation, extreme cases, dimensional analysis, and other modeling methods work. They also reveal how nonscientists absorb these concepts and use them at home, school, and work.

Grimvall's simple, elegant explanations will help you tap into your inner scientist. Read this book and enjoy your own "Aha!" moment.

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À propos de l'auteur

Göran Grimvall is a professor of physics and the director of undergraduate studies at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and has published several popular science books.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801897173
ISBN 13 
9780801897177
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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