Course Description

[davidschroth]

The following class sounds like it would not only be useful, but extremely fun, as well:

This course teaches the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact calculation. Techniques include extreme-cases reasoning, dimensional analysis, successive approximation, discretization, generalization, and pictorial analysis. Applications include mental calculation, solid geometry, musical intervals, logarithms, integration, infinite series, solitaire, and differential equations. (No epsilons or deltas are harmed by taking this course.)

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't want to harm those epsilons and deltas!

It does sound interesting. I'm amazed at who doesn't know dimensional analysis at all.