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Street-Fighting Mathematics

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States18.098
Free, no sign-up neededJanuary IAP 2008English
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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.

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