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A Short History of Science and Technology

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At the end of this module, the students will be able to understand and qualitatively apply some of the most important ideas and concepts in science and technology. The goal of this module is to show the impact of these ideas onto culture and society but also the other way around, to show how culture and society actually generate great minds having such profound ideas. After successfully completing this module, the students will be able to place their field of study into a much fuller and broader picture of recent human achievement in science and technology.

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A Short History of Science and Technology:

Week 1 The development of calculus more than 350 years ago
Week 2 Newton’s law of gravity explains the motion of the stars
Week 3 The invention of imaginary numbers improves almost all of engineering
Week 4 The Gaussian distribution is everywhere and is the bedrock of statistics
Week 5 From traffic jams to music, waves describe the world
Week 6 Interpreting the world in the frequency domain allows for new insights
Week 7 Navier-Stokes explain the mechanics of fluids
Week 8 The secret of electromagnetic waves is unlocked by Maxwell
Week 9 The 2nd law of thermodynamics dominates everything in the long run
Week 10 Relativity theory has changed our understanding of the universe
Week 11 Quantum mechanics is strange but apparently true
Week 12 Information theory is at the heart of the Internet
Week 13 Chaos theory clearly shows that not all is predictable
Week 14 The Black-Scholes equation gives us a handle on the financial markets

Required Book: “17 Equations that changed the world” by Ian Steward

Vorlesung mit 2 Lektionen pro Woche

Uebung mit 2 Lektionen pro Woche

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