Hamming, "Mathematics" (May 18, 1995)
Channel: securitylectures
Date: 2012-08-26

Intro: As you live your life, your attention is generally on the foreground things, and the background is usually taken for granted. We take for granted, most of the time, air, water, and many other things such as language and Mathematics. When you have worked in an organization for a long time its structure, its methods, and its "ethos" if you wish, are usually taken for granted.



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.