Risto_Saarelma comments on Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 16 July 2010 06:55:30PM *  7 points [-]

There's a course "Street Fighting Mathematics" on MIT OCW, with an associated free Creative Commons textbook (PDF). It's about estimation tricks and heuristics that can be used when working with math problems. Despite the pop-sounding title, it appears to be written for people who are actually expected to be doing nontrivial math.

Might be relevant to the simple math of everything stuff.

Comment author: JamesPfeiffer 23 July 2010 03:35:44AM 0 points [-]

For a teaser, the part about singing logarithms looks cool.