Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
Back-of-the-Envelope Physics
How Many Licks? Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
Also, the books below are listed as related resources in another class on approximation in science & engineering by the author of the Street-Fighting textbook on OCW, so they may be relevant for comparison, too, or at least interesting.
Engel, Arthur. Problem-solving Strategies. New York, NY: Springer, 1999. ISBN: 9780387982199.
Schmid-Nielsen, Knut. Scaling: Why is Animal Size So Important? New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780521319874.
Vogel, Steven. Life in Moving Fluids. 2nd rev. ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691026169.
Seemingly relevant comparison volumes:
Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do
Back-of-the-Envelope Physics
How Many Licks? Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin
Also, the books below are listed as related resources in another class on approximation in science & engineering by the author of the Street-Fighting textbook on OCW, so they may be relevant for comparison, too, or at least interesting.
Engel, Arthur. Problem-solving Strategies. New York, NY: Springer, 1999. ISBN: 9780387982199.
Schmid-Nielsen, Knut. Scaling: Why is Animal Size So Important? New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780521319874.
Vogel, Steven. Life in Moving Fluids. 2nd rev. ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691026169.
Vogel, Steven. Comparative Biomechanics: Life’s Physical World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780691112978.
Pólya, George. Induction and Analogy in Mathematics. Vol. 1, Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. 1954. Reprint, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780691025094.
Great list, thanks!