Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking - Hardcover

Grimvall, Göran

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9780801897160: Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking
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ISBN 10: 0801897165 ISBN 13: 9780801897160
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

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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About the Author

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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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801897165
ISBN 13 
9780801897160
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
232
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