TY  - GEN
AU  - Goldman,Steven L.
ED  - Teaching Company
TI  - Science in the twentieth century : : a social-intellectual survey 
T2  - The Great courses
SN  - 9781565858923 (Set)
AV  - LB 14.6 G619s 2004
U1  - 370 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chantilly, Virginia
PB  - The Teaching Company
KW  - Education.
KW  - Teaching
KW  - Educación
KW  - Enseñanza
KW  - Ciencia
KW  - Historia
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Científicos
N1  - Course no.: 1220
36 lectures (30 minutes per lecture).
In 3 containers; "Science & mathematics"--Container; Disc 1-2: lecture 1. The evolution of 20th-Century science --
lecture 2. Redefining reality --
lecture 3. Quantum theory makes its appearance --
lecture 4. The heroic "old" age of quantum theory --
lecture 5. A newer theory-QED --
lecture 6. QED meets fission and fusion --
lecture 7. Learning by smashing --
lecture 8. What good is QED? --
lecture 9. The newest theory-quantum chromodynamics --
lecture 10. Unifying nature --
lecture 11. Chemists become designers --
lecture 12. Mathematics and truth --
Disc 3-4:
lecture 13. Mathematics and reality --
lecture 14. The universe expands --
lecture 15. What is the universe? --
lecture 16. How do we know what's out there? --
lecture 17. From equilibrium to dynamism --
lecture 18. Subterranean fury --
lecture 19. Solar system citizen --
lecture 20. Science organized, adopted, co-opted --
lecture 21. Techno-science and globalization --
lecture 22. The evolution of evolution --
lecture 23. Human evolution --
lecture 24. Genetics-from Mendel to molecules --
Disc 5-6:
lecture 25. Molecular biology --
lecture 26. Molecular medicine --
lecture 27. Culture-anthropology and archaeology --
lecture 28. Culture-history --
lecture 29. Culture-linguistics --
lecture 30. Society-sociology --
lecture 31. Society-political science --
lecture 32. Society-economics --
lecture 33. Mind-classical and behavioral psychology --
lecture 34. Mind-cybernetics, AI, connectionism --
lecture 35. Looking back --
lecture 36. Looking around and looking ahead
N2  - Presents 36 lectures discussing the evolving relationship of science with society during the 20th century
ER  -