Hamming, "Quantum Mechanics" (May 19, 1995)
Channel: securitylectures
Date: 2012-08-09

Intro: Most physicists currently believe they have description of the universe (though they currently admit 90% to 99% of the universe is in the form of "dark matter" of which they know nothing except it has gravitational attraction). You should realize in all of the science there are only descriptions of how things happen and nothing about why they happen. Newton gave us the formula for how gravity worked, and he made no hypotheses as to what gravity really was, or through what medium it worked, let alone why it worked. Indeed he did not believe in "action at a distance."



The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" was the capstone course by Dr. Richard W. Hamming (1915-1998) for graduate students at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey California. 

This course is intended to instill a "style of thinking" that will enhance one's ability to function as a problem solver of complex technical issues. With respect, students sometimes called the course "Hamming on Hamming" because he relates many research collaborations, discoveries, inventions and achievements of his own. This collection of stories and carefully distilled insights relates how those discoveries came about. Most importantly, these presentations provide objective analysis about the thought processes and reasoning that took place as Dr. Hamming, his associates and other major thinkers, in computer science and electronics, progressed through the grand challenges of science and engineering in the twentieth century.