K. Lee Lerner, contributing author: Science and Its Times

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K. Lee Lerner, contributing author: Science and Its Times. (8 volumes). Edited by Neal Schlager. Published by Thomson | Gale. 2001.
K. Lee Lerner, contributing author: Science and Its Times

Abstract:

RUSA seal*RUSA AWARD. K Lee Lerner was a substantial contributor to Science and its Times: the critically-acclaimed and RUSA award-winning series edited by Neil Schlager and published by Thomson | Gale.

Across the eight volumes in the series, K. Lee Lerner's contributions regarding the history of science and include articles titled: Science in the Ancient and Classical Worlds 2000 BC-699 AD; Astrology and Astronomy in the Ancient World; Medieval Science, Religion, and Astronomy; Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation; Enlightenment Age Advances in Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics; Eighteenth Century Astronomers Argue the Existence of God; The Cavendish Experiment Quest for a Gravitational Constant; Unification Nineteenth Century Advances in Electromagnetism; Einstein's Theories of Relativity; Development of Quantum Mechanics; QED Quantum Electrodynamics (QED); Arguments against Hidden Variables in Quantum Systems; A World Within: The Search for Subatomic Particles; The Development of RADAR and SONAR; Continental Drift and the Theory of Plate Tectonics; Life cycles of the stars; Nucleosynthesis and Stellar Evolution Bind Humanity to the Cosmos; Great Barringer Meteor Crater; Hubble Space Telescope; The Development of Radio Astronomy; Black holes; and Quasars- Beacons in the Cosmic Night.

K. Lee Lerner's contributions regarding the history of mathematics include articles titled: The Moscow and Rhind Papyruses; Eratosthenes calculates the circumference of Earth; Renaissance Advancements in Notation Enhance the Translation and Precision of Mathematics; Emergence of the Calculus; The Elaboration of the Calculus; Credit for Calculus - The Newton Leibniz feud; Mathematics and the Eighteenth Century Physical World; The Specialization of Mathematics and the Rise of Formalism; Establishment of the Field's Medal in Mathematics; Kepler's sphere-packing conjecture is finally proved; Bootstrap Statistics; Efron's Development of the Bootstrap; and Use of Number Theory in Cryptology.

Lerner's contributions regarding contemporary issues and developments in science and mathematics include articles on Relativity theory; Evolution and Evolutionary Mechanisms; Lysenkoism A Deadly Mix of Pseudoscience and Political Ideology, and an article related to cultural Science Wars

Also included among K. Lee Lerner's contribution to SAIT are volume/section overviews and conceptual framing essays, including: Science: A new understanding of nature 1900-1950; Mathematics. The organization of the mathematics community, 1900-1950; Mathematics. An overview of mathematics, 1950-2000.

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