HOW MANY LICKS?: OR, HOW TO ESTIMATE DAMN NEAR ANYTHING
Book ID/图书代码: 02173009B32771
English Summary/英文概要: How many licks to the center of a Tootsie Pop? How many people are having sex at this moment? How long would it take a monkey on a typewriter to produce the plays of Shakespeare? For all those questions that keep you up at night, here€™s the way to answer them. And the beauty of it is that it€™s all approximate!Using Enrico Fermi€™s theory of approximation, Santos brings the world of numbers into perspective. For puzzle junkies and trivia fanatics, these 70 word puzzles will show the reader how to take a bit of information, add what they already know, and extrapolate an answer.Santos has done the impossible: make math and the multiple possibilities of numbers fun and informative. Can you really cry a river? Is it possible to dig your way out of jail with just a teaspoon and before your life sentence is up?Taking an academic subject and using it as the prism to view everyday off-the-wall questions as math problems to be solved is a natural step for the lovers o
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 你所掌握的 + 容易得到的 + 推算 = 你想要知道的!
换一种模式思考,在前所未闻的数字游戏中发现你非凡的创造力!
尝到一根棒棒糖的糖芯需要舔几次?
此时有多少人正在做爱?
一只猴子需要多少时间才能在打字机前完成莎士比亚的剧本?
你一定会说:这是疯了么?这种荒诞古怪的问题谁会知道
那么,如果是估算呢?
你刚好想说也不可能。但是且慢,跟着它走,你会发现自己不可思议的创造潜力!通过恩里科•費米的理论,Santos找到了一条解决问题的途径——估算。没有复杂难懂的专业知识!没有枯燥繁琐的学术研究!
它是一本数学书,但有不仅仅是数学书!
本书的70个小题目将向你逐步展示如何在获取的信息中加入已知元素,最终推断出结论。Santos带领您一起完成不可能完成的任务:将各种数字变得更有趣和易于掌握。
你知道吗?
A 麦当劳一年卖出多少个汉堡包
B 每个汉堡包含有多少卡路里的热量?
C 一颗原子弹爆释放出多少热量?
A: 在麦当劳金色大M拱形下出入的人次从"1989年750多亿”到”1993年950多亿”可以推算出,平均每年有五十亿人去麦当劳消费。
每个人都有不同的口味,爱美人士可能只点一份色拉,暴食症人群也许一口气点上10个巨无霸。那么我们假设每个人点一份芝士汉堡。
B: 麦当劳网页显示,一个芝士汉堡包含有300卡路里。
C: 维基百科搜索结果,在日本长崎爆炸的原子弹“胖男人”释放了二十五千吨的卡路里。
每年卖出的汉堡包数 乘以 一个汉堡包所含卡路里 等于 一年卖出汉堡包所含总热量
一年卖出汉堡包所含总热量 除以 一颗原子弹爆炸放出的热量
我们可以得到:麦当劳一年中卖出的汉堡包所含总热量 = 70颗原子弹爆炸的热量!
你是否真能泪流成河?
是否有可能仅凭一把茶勺在有生之年挖出一条越狱通道?
要爬多久的阶梯才能到达月亮上?
你要跑得多快才能迅速燃烧5千克的脂肪?
……
现在,你不需要再为了各种各样的问题而寝食难安了,再像解开数学题那样对付它们!对于那些钟爱数独、解码、字谜以及发展性思维游戏的人来说,这简直太棒了!因为所有的问题都可以通过计算得到答案。更重要的是,它教会了你这种独特思考模式!(NH)
Awards/获奖情况:“Never before have I seen a book that could so effectively prepare a person to create their own depository of party trivia while brushing up on math skills. Nice!”---Danica McKellar, actress and author of Math Doesn’t Suck and Kiss My Math (我从未见过这样一本书,它让人们在学习数学的同时拥有自己的创造力。---Danica McKellar,《数学并不枯燥》、《亲吻我的数学》作者)
“No matter how you feel about math, Santos’ puzzle-solving prowess shows you just how much you can do when you put on your thinking cap.”---American Profile, October 4, 2009 (不论你如何看待数学,Santos解决难题的非凡才能告诉你,在你深思熟虑之时可以发挥多大的潜能。---——《美国外形》)
Danica McKellar, actress and author of Math Doesn’t Suck and Kiss My Math
“Never before have I seen a book that could so effectively prepare a person to create their own depository of party trivia while brushing up on math skills. Nice!”
American Profile, October 4, 2009
“No matter how you feel about math, Santos’ puzzle-solving prowess shows you just how much you can do when you put on your thinking cap.”
About the Author/作者介绍: Aaron Santos,2001年毕业于麻省理工学院,获物理学士学位。
在波士顿大学毕业后获得物理博士学位。现居密西根,是密西根大学的博士后研究员。他业余时间钟情于计算《How many licks》里的数字谜题。
Aaron Santos graduated from MIT in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in physics and a concentration in Theater Arts. Santos is a recent graduate of Boston University with a PhD in physics. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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