Giovanni Zanzotto
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova
Email: giovanni.zanzotto[at]unipd.it
SSD:
MAT/07
Aim:
We hear numbers everywhere, are they good, are they bad? The deficit of a country is 1 trillion Euro. We consume 175 liters of water every day. Do these figures make sense? How should we respond? This class gives introductory lessons to order-of magnitude estimation, with opportunity to practice in reference to one’s environment at the widest separations of scales, from molecules to astronomical objects.