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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between ancient Greek philosophy and mathematics. Investigates how ideas of definition, reason, argument and proof, rationality/irrationality, number, quality and quantity, truth, and even the idea of an idea were shaped by the interplay of philosophic and mathematical inquiry. Examines how discovery of the incommensurability of magnitudes challenged the Greek presumption that the cosmos is fully understandable. Explores the influence of mathematics on ancient Greek ethical theories. Authors: Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Nicomachus, Theon of Smyrna, Bacon, Descartes, Dedekind, and Newton. Limited to students in Concourse.
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Prereq: None. Coreq: CC.A10 or CC.010
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3.00 Credits
Philosophic and historical approach to conceptions of energy through the 19th century. Relation of long standing scientific and philosophic problems in the field of energy to 21st-century debates. Topics include the development of thermodynamics and kinetic theories, the foundation of the scientific project, the classical view of energy, and the harnessing of nature. Authors include Bacon, Boltzmann, Carnot, Compte, Descartes, Gibbs, Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Peirce, Whitehead, and Maxwell. Key texts and controversies form topics of weekly writing assignments and term papers.
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Prereq: None
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5.00 Credits
Equivalent to 18.02; see 18.02 for description. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Calculus I (GIR); Coreq: CC.A10, CC.010, or CC.011
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5.00 Credits
Equivalent to 18.03; see 18.03 for description. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: None. Coreq: Calculus II (GIR); CC.A10, CC.010 or CC.011
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5.00 Credits
Equivalent to 18.01A; see 18.01A for description. Students attend regular 18.01A lectures and are assigned to recitations taught by Concourse faculty. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Knowledge of differentiation and elememtary integration; Coreq: CC.A10 or CC.010
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5.00 Credits
Equivalent to 18.02A; see 18.02A for descriptoin. Students attend regular 18.02A lectures and are assigned to recitations taught by Concourse faculty. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Calculus I (GIR); Coreq: CC.A10, CC.010, or CC.011
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Tutoring, leadership of study and review groups, seminars and recitations in the Concourse Program, under the supervision of senior Concourse staff. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Opportunity for independent study under regular supervision by a staff member. Projects require prior approval, as well as a written proposal and a final report. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: Permission of instructor
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5.00 Credits
Equivalent to 3.091; see 3.091 for description. Students attend regular 3.091 lectures and are assigned to recitations taught by Concourse faculty. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: None. Coreq: CC.A10 or CC.A010
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5.00 Credits
Equivalent to 8.01; see 8.01 for description. Limited to students in Concourse.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: None. Coreq: CC.A10 or CC.010
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