MIT OpenCourseWare
Street-Fighting Mathematics
Art: Johannes Kepler, Konjukce Saturnu a Jupiteru Originál, 1596 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Sanjoy Mahajan
- Term
- January IAP 2008
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 3 problem sets · 1 reading · 20 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 18.098 Street-Fighting Mathematics, January IAP 2008, Sanjoy Mahajan — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
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Materials by section
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Syllabus
Readings
15 files
- Street Fighting Mathematics textbook Download
- Chapter 1 - Dimensions, pp. 3-12 Download
- Questions from lecture 1 Download
- Chapter 2 - Extreme cases, pp. 13-26 Download
- Questions and answers from lecture 2 Download
- Chapter 3 - Discretization, pp. 31-40 Download
- Questions from lecture 3 Download
- Chapter 4 - Picture proofs, pp. 45-56 Download
- Chapter 5 - Taking out the big part, pp. 57-79 Download
- Chapter 6 - Analogy, pp. 80-85 Download
- Chapter 7 - Operators, pp. 86-90 Download
- Listing of the topics discussed in each lecture session (topics.pdf) Download
- Table of contents to the course textbook, Street-fighting Mathematics (toc.pdf) Download
- Handout - approximating logarithms using musical intervals Download
- List of references from the course text, Street-fighting Mathematics (ref.pdf) Download
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MIT OpenCourseWare, Sanjoy Mahajan, 18.098 Street-Fighting Mathematics, January IAP 2008.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: January IAP 2008 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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