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100 1 _aGoldman, Steven L.
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_aThe Great Courses
245 1 0 _aScience in the twentieth century :
_ba social-intellectual survey /
_cSteven L. Goldman..
246 3 0 _aScience in the 20th century
246 3 0 _aSocial intellectual survey
260 _aChantilly, Va. :
_bTeaching Co.,
_c2004.
300 _a3 volumes ;
_c21 cm.
440 _96419
_aGreat courses
490 0 _aThe great courses
500 _aCourse no. 1220.
500 _a"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
505 _av.1: 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. v.2: 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. v.3: 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.
520 _aAs the 19th century drew to a close, the age-old quest to understand the physical world appeared to be complete, except for a few minor details. In fact, Albert Michelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences, noted that, "It seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established." And he was far from alone among his peers. Scientists in 1900 had no inkling of the other mind-boggling developments that lay in wait: plate tectonics, genetic engineering, space probes, nanotechnology, big bang theory, electronic computers, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, and many other astounding products of the human mind. Indeed, by the end of the 20th century, nearly every 19th-century theory of natural and social phenomena would be overthrown or superseded. This dynamic transformation has not been a matter of revolution, but of evolution, as you'll learn in this fascinating 36-lecture exploration of scientific growth filled with ideas, anecdotes, and insights. You'll see how 20th-century scientists have built on crucial 19th-century concepts such as energy, natural selection, atoms, fields, and waves to assemble a body of knowledge to stun even the most farsighted scientific thinkers of that not-too-distant past. You'll come away with a new appreciation of how scientific knowledge expands, as Professor Goldman addresses a tremendous range of scientific and technological topics, including science and society, physics, mathematics, psychology, cosmology, telecommunications, meteorology, and archaeology.
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