Mathematical Rules of Thumb

Interactive figures and calculations for each chapter of Mathematical Rules of Thumb: change a value, watch the figure respond, and check the arithmetic yourself.

Part I · Chapters 1 to 7

Foundations of Mathematical Judgment

Part II · Chapters 8 to 11

Discrete Structure and Scale

Part III · Chapters 12 to 17

Uncertainty, Information, and Value

Part IV · Chapters 18 to 21

Modeling, Optimization, and Computation

Part V · Chapters 22 to 25

Dynamics, Signals, and Feedback

Notebooks and skills on GitHub

Every chapter has a Jupyter notebook that reproduces its calculations and figures, and a skill an AI assistant can use to teach the chapter.

github.com/KarpelesPublishing/mathematical-rules-of-thumb