GENERAL INFORMATION:

Instructors: Pantokratoras Asterios
Semester: 1st
CREDITS:

ECTS Units: 3
Teaching Units: 3
Theory Hours: 2
Exercises Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
COURSE PAGE: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/TMB259/

Course Description

Beginnings of Human Civilization, first cities, Minoan civilization destruction, from Aristotle to the first computer, Heraclitus and quantum mechanics, Democritus and the atom structure, Pythagorian school, Parthenon’s golden ration, Antikythira mechanism, Archimedes, foundation of the first universities, scientific revolution (Copernicus, Gallileo, Keppler, Newton), industrial revolution, Maxwell electromagnetic theory, Einstein, Quantum mechanics, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, Poincaré recurrence theorem, last theorem of Fermat.