6.055
The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering
Spring 2008
Topics
- Introduction and managing complexity
- Heterogeneous hierarchies
- Proportional reasoning
- Conservation/box models
- Dimensions and afterword
- Special cases
- Discretization
- Spring models
Readings
- The course readings were based on an early draft of the above published book. Those course readings are provided below as a single file, or broken down in the subsequent table by discrete topics for each class session. Chapter 3 in Part 1 is unavailable.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.