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Quantify a crash course in smart thinking

By: Grimvall, GoranMaterial type: Text

TextPublication 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	ICTS	General Sc	Rack No 3	Q147 (Browse shelf (Opens below))	Available	Billno:; Billdate: 1900-01-00		00178

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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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