Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking

Grimvall, Göran

ISBN 10: 0801897173 / ISBN 13: 9780801897177

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press (edition Illustrated), 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quantify!: A Crash Course in Smart Thinking
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press (edition Illustrated)
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801897173
• ISBN 13: 9780801897177
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Illustrated.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

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.

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.