Book recommendations for making guesses, estimates, inferences

Terry Bing
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I came across this book 'Street fighting Mathematics, The art of educated guessing and opportunistic problem solving' , by Sanjoy Mahaan, published by MIT press. The book talks about how we can guess some property of the solutions of a number of physics and math problems without actually solving them rigorously, e.g. using dimensional analysis, symmetry in variables, making numerical estimations, etc. I really enjoyed the book (or at least the parts I went through, had numerous insights). Can anyone recommend a similar book, at an undergraduate level? I would like to see more such examples and techniques. Maybe more physics oriented.
 
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I enjoyed the book as well. He also did a course by the same name, on edx.org
He wrote another book about Engineering Insights. I have not picked it up, yet.
 
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