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Science in the 20th Century

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Embark on a grand tour of the sciences with a distinguished professor.

Syllabus

01: The Evolution of 20th-Century Science
02: Redefining Reality
03: Quantum Theory Makes Its Appearance
04: The Heroic “Old” Age of Quantum Theory
05: A Newer Theory-QED
06: QED Meets Fission and Fusion
07: Learning by Smashing
08: What Good is QED?
09: The Newest Theory-Quantum Chromodynamics
10: Unifying Nature
11: Chemists Become Designers
12: Mathematics and Truth
13: Mathematics and Reality
14: The Universe Expands
15: What is the Universe?
16: How Do We Know What's Out There?
17: From Equilibrium to Dynamism
18: Subterranean Fury
19: Solar System Citizen
20: Science Organized, Adopted, Co-opted
21: Techno-Science and Globalization
22: The Evolution of Evolution
23: Human Evolution
24: Genetics-From Mendel to Molecules
25: Molecular Biology
26: Molecular Medicine
27: Culture-Anthropology and Archaeology
28: Culture-History
29: Culture-Linguistics
30: Society-Sociology
31: Society-Political Science
32: Society-Economics
33: Mind-Classical and Behavioral Psychology
34: Mind-Cybernetics, AI, Connectionism
35: Looking Back
36: Looking Around and Looking Ahead
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Steven L. Goldman

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