This is the Greatest Name for a Math Class I’ve Seen

Street-Fighting Mathematics

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. (No epsilons or deltas are harmed by taking this course.)

This course is designed to teach you a flexible attitude toward problem solving. I’ve divided the attitude into six skills or tools. There are others, and more detail on each, but life is short and these six make a decent toolkit.

…and sounds like it’s a decent class to boot.

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