# The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering

- By: Sanjoy Mahajan
- Publisher: Olin College of Engineering
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Industrial_and_Systems_Engineering/The_Art_of_Insight_in_Science_and_Engineering_(Mahajan))
- Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
- Read at LibreTexts: https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Industrial_and_Systems_Engineering/The_Art_of_Insight_in_Science_and_Engineering_(Mahajan)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/eng-24075/pdf

To master complexity, we can organize it or discard it. This text first teaches the tools for organizing complexity, then distinguishes the two paths for discarding complexity: with and without loss of information. Questions and problems throughout the text help readers master and apply these groups of tools.