This course studies the twentieth- century origins of the enormously successful quantum theory, examining Bohr's interpretation and why it is was so unbelievable to Einstein and others. Topics include photons and electrons, the structure of atoms, probability interpretation, the wave-particle duality, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schr dinger's cat, and Bell's theorem. The emphasis is on conceptualization, but elementary algebra is used. No previous physics needed. Risk, Uncertainty, and Markets.
Games of chance are fascinating for both practitioners and the more academically inclined.
This course explores the history of how people have used ideas about risk and uncertainty to describe the behavior of the physical world and whether those ideas are appropriate for describing the risks inherent in market activity. In this course, students consider the lives of these and other renowned figures from the perspective of the psychobiographer. Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic came to power promising the Serbian people a return to dignity. Instead, his repressive, messianic nationalism lead to his country's international isolation. In this course, students examine the political, social, and cultural landscape of the states that emerged from the breakup of Socialist Yugoslavia.