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Read this book and enjoy your own "Aha!moment. Num Pages: 232 pages, 56, 56 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 385.
Goran 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. Grimvall's simple, elegant explanations will help you tap into your inner scientist. Read this ... Read more
Goran 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. Grimvall's simple, elegant explanations will help you tap into your inner scientist. Read this ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801897160
SKU
V9780801897160
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-2
About Goran Grimvall
Goran Grimvall is professor emeritus of physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. An elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, he is the author of a number of popular physics books, including Brainteaser Physics, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Quantify!
An excellent piece of work with lots of fascinating information inside.
Brian Clegg Popular Science 2011 Essays are fun, involving... and will appeal to both general readers and collections from high school into college grades. Midwest Book Review 2011 Grimvall's book should appeal to and amuse a wide audience, extending from professional scientists, teachres, school kids, newspaper columnists to ... Read more
Brian Clegg Popular Science 2011 Essays are fun, involving... and will appeal to both general readers and collections from high school into college grades. Midwest Book Review 2011 Grimvall's book should appeal to and amuse a wide audience, extending from professional scientists, teachres, school kids, newspaper columnists to ... Read more