#124 overallHidden gem
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (Richard Hamming)
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3 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 3 years, 2017–2023 · score 3.5
A video lecture series by Richard Hamming, based on a graduate course he taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1995, covering how to do research and learn hard subjects. The lectures are accompanied by a book with the same title.
Commenters call it an incredible, pure-gold course on how to learn and do science, and recommend the lectures alongside the book.
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A good chunk of this comes directly from Richard Hamming's incredible The Art of doing Science and Engineering (a video of the specific lecture on n-dimensional spaces can be found here[0]) and yet I see no mention of this talk anywhere in the article, which is unfortunate.
I highly recommend checking out Hamming's lectures if you find this enjoyable.
0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU_Q2a0S0zI
If your are interested in learning hard subjects, I highly recommend Richard Hamming's wonderful course The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn [1], and the related book [2]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4b-52jtos&list=PL2FF649D0C...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Art-Doing-Science-Engineering-Learnin...
If you like this, I highly recommend Hamming's book The Art of Doing Science and Engineering. This is the write-up of a graduate course he taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. There is also a complete set of video recordings of his lectures from his 1995 teaching of that course on YouTube [1].
The talk You and Your Research is actually the final chapter/lecture in the book/course.
I can't personally recommend the lectures, since I have not watched them, but I have carefully read the book and taken notes: it is pure gold.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30