Project Renaissance. Lectures by Professor Ricardo Nirenberg at The University at Albany.
Fall 1996 Lectures.
Week of 9/3/96: "
The Axiomatic Method
."
Excerpts from
Euclid's Elements.
Week of 9/26/96: "
Language.
" Excerpt from
Roland Barthes' "Inaugural Lecture, Collège de France"
Week of 10/15/96:
"Myths of the Otherworld: Love, Guilt and Memory."
Week of 10/22/96:
"Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Weaving and Birth."
Week of 10/24/96:
"The Presocratics: Being, Not-Being and Becoming"
and also "
Heraclitus and Parmenides
."
Week of 10/29/96:
"Space and Time"
Week of 11/20/96:
"The Astronomical Revolution & the Birth of Modern Science."
Week of 12/2/96:
"The Birth of Modern Science: Galileo and Descartes."
Spring 1997 Lectures.
Week of 4/28/97 Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Computers and Us"
Week of 4/21/97 Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Some 20th Century Physics"
Week of 4/14/97: Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Genetics"
Week of 3/10/97: Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Statistics"
Week of 3/3/97: Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Probability"
Week of 3/3/97: Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Matter, Heat, & Light"
Week of 1/20/97: Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Mechanics and Calculus"
Week of 1/27/97: Professor Ricardo Nirenberg:
"Paradoxes of Infinity"
.
Mail to:
r.nirenberg@albany.edu