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Subtitle: a crash course in smart thinking
By: Göran Grimvall.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780801897160; 9780801897177
Subjects: Scientists -- Psychology; Creative thinking; Lateral thinking; Mathematical analysis
Description: "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."--Publisher summary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.