TY - GEN AU - Hamming, Richard W. TI - Art of doing science and engineering : learning to learn SN - 9781732265172 U1 - 620 PY - 2020/// CY - California PB - Stripe Press N1 - Contents Foreword vii Preface xix Introduction xxiii 1 Orientation 1 2 Foundations of the digital (discrete) revolution 16 3 History of computers-hardware 30 4 History of computers-software 43 5 History of computer applications 62 6 Limits of computer applications-AI-I 75 7 Limits of computer applications-AI-II 88 8 Limits of computer applications-AI-III 104 9 n-Dimensional space 108 10 Coding theory-I 124 11 Coding theory-II 136 12 Error-correcting codes 149 13 Information theory 163 14 Digital filters-I 178 15 Digital filters-II 196 16 Digital filters-III 211 17 Digital filters-IV 224 18 Simulation-I 234 19 Simulation-II 246 20 Simulation-III 258 21 Fiber optics 275 22 Computer-aided instruction (CAI) 286 23 Mathematics 297 24 Quantum mechanics 312 25 Creativity 323 26 Experts 333 27 Unreliable data 345 28 Systems engineering 360 29 You get what you measure 373 30 You and your research 386 Index 400 ER -