Quantify a crash course in smart thinking

By: Grimvall, GoranMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, [c2011]Description: 218 p
Contents:
1 Numbers 2 Measures 3 Accuracy and Significance 4 Extrapolations 5 Models 6 The Real World 7 Tricks of the Trade Seven Principles in Scientific Literacy
Summary: 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.
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1 Numbers
2 Measures
3 Accuracy and Significance
4 Extrapolations
5 Models
6 The Real World
7 Tricks of the Trade

Seven Principles in Scientific Literacy

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.

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