The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity
暫譯: 科學與工程的洞察藝術:掌握複雜性

Mahajan, Sanjoy

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2014-11-21
  • 售價: $2,560
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,432
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 408
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262526549
  • ISBN-13: 9780262526548
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics
  • 海外代購書籍(需單獨結帳)

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商品描述

Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.

In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information into a simple picture. Unlike computers, humans depend on insight. Based on the author's fifteen years of teaching at MIT, Cambridge University, and Olin College, The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering shows us how to build insight and find understanding, giving readers tools to help them solve any problem in science and engineering.

To master complexity, we can organize it or discard it. The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering first teaches the tools for organizing complexity, then distinguishes the two paths for discarding complexity: with and without loss of information. Questions and problems throughout the text help readers master and apply these groups of tools. Armed with this three-part toolchest, and without complicated mathematics, readers can estimate the flight range of birds and planes and the strength of chemical bonds, understand the physics of pianos and xylophones, and explain why skies are blue and sunsets are red.

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering will appear in print and online under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Share Alike license.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

讓棘手問題更容易解決的工具。

在本書中,Sanjoy Mahajan 向我們展示,掌握複雜性的方式在於洞察,而非精確。精確性可能以大量資訊淹沒我們;相反地,洞察能將看似毫不相關的資訊連結起來,形成一幅簡單的圖像。人類不像電腦,必須仰賴洞察。《科學與工程中的洞察藝術》(The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering)以作者在 MIT、Cambridge University 與 Olin College 十五年的教學經驗為基礎,向我們展示如何培養洞察力並獲得理解,為讀者提供解決科學與工程中各種問題的工具。

若要掌握複雜性,我們可以將其組織起來,或捨棄其中一部分。《科學與工程中的洞察藝術》首先教導組織複雜性的工具,接著區分捨棄複雜性的兩條途徑:保留資訊,以及不保留資訊。全書各處的問題與習題,能協助讀者掌握並運用這幾組工具。具備這套由三部分組成的工具箱,且不需要複雜的數學,讀者便能估算鳥類與飛機的飛行距離,以及化學鍵的強度;理解鋼琴與木琴背後的物理原理;並解釋天空為何呈現藍色、夕陽為何呈現紅色。

《科學與工程中的洞察藝術》(The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering)將以 Creative Commons 非商業性—相同方式分享授權條款,以紙本與線上形式出版。

作者簡介

Sanjoy Mahajan is Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College of Engineering and Visiting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the physics faculty. He is the author of Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (MIT Press).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Sanjoy Mahajan 是 Olin College of Engineering 的應用科學與工程學副教授,也是 MIT 電機工程與電腦科學系的客座副教授。他曾獲選為 Oxford University 的 Marshall Scholar,並擔任 University of Cambridge Corpus Christi College 的 Fellow;在 Cambridge 期間,他是物理學院的成員。他著有《Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving》(MIT Press)。