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Bezig met laden... The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (editie 2020)door Richard W. Hamming (Auteur), Bret Victor (Voorwoord)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I read this because Bret Victor really likes it. There's a lot in here and I will probably get a lot out of it if I read it again later. What did I expect going in? Some sort of philosophy or method that Hamming synthesized through his own experience - how Hamming thinks about doing meaningful technical work. What did I get? A sense of the man himself, and how he went about thinking about various fields. I think each set of lectures has an interesting insight. The subject matter, although interesting and applicable in its own right, is strictly illustrative (as he indicates in the intro). It's also provided an interesting framework for thinking about general direction of work, and a reminder of how much I enjoy math (and how it can provide important perspectives!). I read it kind of skipping around - first the intro and the more obviously general closing chapters, then the middle, then skimmed the closing chapters again. I felt like that gave me a bit more of a framework for understanding what was important and not important in the middle - so if you feel like the technical stuff is getting to be a slog try taking a break and reading some of the more philosophical stuff in the back. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Highly effective thinking is an art that engineers and scientists can be taught to develop. By presenting actual experiences and analyzing them as they are described, the author conveys the developmental thought processes employed and shows a style of thinking that leads to successful results is something that can be learned. Along with spectacular successes, the author also conveys how failures contributed to shaping the thought processes. Provides the reader with a style of thinking that will enhance a person's ability to function as a problem-solver of complex technical issues. Consists of a collection of stories about the author's participation in significant discoveries, relating how those discoveries came about and, most importantly, provides analysis about the thought processes and reasoning that took place as the author and his associates progressed through engineering problems. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This book is excellent excellent excellent. The thesis is that a life lived without producing excellent work isn't one worth living. Hamming describes the book as a manual of style; while university is good at teaching technical skills, it's not very good at teaching the important stuff that falls /between/ the discrete subjects. Like how to choose important problems to work on, or where insight comes from, or how to stay ahead of the trend and not become obsolete.
To this extent, Hamming talks about his own successes and failures (though mostly his successes --- he says it's more important to study success than failure, since you'd like to replicate only the former.) He's obviously proud of his accomplishments, which is a refreshing note from most technical autobiographies, in which the authors present a cool, modest description of their work. Hamming provides commentary behind each of his wins, describing the circumstances that lead to it, and how having a "prepared mind" helped him jump on it before others did. He further notes how he could have done better, and gives explicit advice to the reader for how to do a better job than he did.
This is a wonderfully insightful book, and is chocked full inspiration and interesting technical topics. If you're in a technical field and you'd like to do great work, this is mandatory reading. ( )