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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">The 29 March 2010
edition of "MIT news" carries a report "Rough calculations:
Sanjoy Mahajan's (2010) new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays
out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty
problem-solving" [Dizikes (2010)], accessible by clicking on
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/street-fight-0329.html>
and/or <http://tinyurl.com/y9dcsw8>.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Sanjoy
<http://mit.edu/sanjoy/www/>, developer of the famous Benezet
Centre <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/>, is
currently the associate director for teaching initiatives at
MIT's Teaching and Learning Laboratory
<http://mit.edu/tll/>.<br>
<br>
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University<br>
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367<br>
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands<br>
Honorary Member, ARFU (Academic Reference Freaks United)<br>
<rrhake@earthlink.net><br>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/><br>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/><br>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/><br>
<http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake><br>
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REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy
<http://tinyurl.com/create.php>.]</font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Dizikes, P. 2010.
"Rough calculations: Sanjoy Mahajan's new book, Street-Fighting
Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and
down-and-dirty problem-solving,' MITnews 29 March; online at
<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/street-fight-0329.html>
and/or <http://tinyurl.com/y9dcsw8>.<br>
<br>
Mahajan, S. 2010. "Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of
Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving." Forward by
Carver Mead<br>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carver_Mead>. MIT Press,
publisher's information at
<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=<span
></span>12156>. Amazon.com information at
<http://tinyurl.com/yhmmm2h>.</font><br>
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