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Goldstein, Martin was born on November 18, 1919 in New York City. Son of Charles Zalman and Susan (Garman) Goldstein.
(Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scie...)
Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scientific Process, was written to give some conception of what the scientific approach is like, how to recognize it, how to distinguish it from other approaches to understanding the world, and to give some feeling for the intellectual excitement and aesthetic satisfactions of science. These goals represented our concept of the term "scientific literacy." Though the book was written for the general reader, to our surprise and gratification it was also used as a text in about forty colleges, and some high schools, for courses in science for the non-scientist, in methodology of science for social and behavioral sciences, and in the philosophy of science. As a result we were encouraged to write a textbook with essentially the same purpose and basic approach, but at a level appropriate to college students. We have drawn up problems for those chapters that would benefit from them, described laboratory experiments that illustrate important points discussed in the text, and made suggestions for additional readings, term papers, and other projects. Throughout the book we have introduced a number of chapters and appendices that provide examples of the uses of quantitative thinking in the sciences: logic, math ematics, probability, statistics, and graphical representation.
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(Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scie...)
Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scientific Process, was written to give some conception of what the scientific approach is like, how to recognize it, how to distinguish it from other approaches to understanding the world, and to give some feeling for the intellectual excitement and aesthetic satisfactions of science. These goals represented our concept of the term "scientific literacy." Though the book was written for the general reader, to our surprise and gratification it was also used as a text in about forty colleges, and some high schools, for courses in science for the non-scientist, in methodology of science for social and behavioral sciences, and in the philosophy of science. As a result we were encouraged to write a textbook with essentially the same purpose and basic approach, but at a level appropriate to college students. We have drawn up problems for those chapters that would benefit from them, described laboratory experiments that illustrate important points discussed in the text, and made suggestions for additional readings, term papers, and other projects. Throughout the book we have introduced a number of chapters and appendices that provide examples of the uses of quantitative thinking in the sciences: logic, math ematics, probability, statistics, and graphical representation.
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( The portraits of Freud, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Leon...)
The portraits of Freud, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Leonardo da Vinci on the cover symbolize a major theme of How We Know—that the creative imagination plays a role in the sciences no less than in the arts, and that scientific discoveries have an aesthetic beauty of their own that can be enjoyed by the nonscientist. Written to be understood by readers without proper scientific training, the main features of scientific method are illustrated by the use of case histories of research and discovery. The book also explores such questions as the nature of scientific understanding of the world, how theories are invented, how they are tested experimentally, and whether the scientist is ever "objective."The broad scientific experience of Martin and Inge Goldstein has made them aware not only of the distinctive features of diverse disciplines, but also of the common ground all fields of science share. This book was written in the belief that these common features of the scientific enterprise can be communicated to the nonscientist, and that it is important both for science and for society as a whole that this be done.How We Know offers help to those mystified and confused by the methods and aims of science. It firmly establishes science as a product of human beings acting in human ways, a process where the search for beauty can be as compelling as the search for truth.
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Goldstein, Martin was born on November 18, 1919 in New York City. Son of Charles Zalman and Susan (Garman) Goldstein.
Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1940; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1950.
Research fellow Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1950-1951, Harvard University, 1951-1953. Fellow Mellon Institute, 1953-1958. Visiting scientist National Physical Laboratory, Israel, 1958-1959.
Staff scientist Ford Motor Company Science Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan, 1960-1964. Visiting professor ceramics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964-1965. Professor chemistry Yeshiva University, 1965-1988.
Visiting professor ceramic engineering University Illinois, 1967-1968. Visiting professor mechanics Technion, Haifa, 1972. Visiting professor chemistry University Bristol, summer 1972, 73.
Visiting professor physical chemistry University Paris Sud, Orsay, France, 1980. Science Research Council visiting fellow, United Kingdom, 1980. Chairman Gordon Glass Conference, Tilton, New Hampshire, 1965.
Co-chairman workshop Conference on Glass Transition and Nature Glassy State, New York Academy of Sciences, 1975. Co-chairman Conference on Structure and Mobility in Molecular and Atomic Glasses, 1980, Conference on Dynamic Aspects of Structural Change in Liquids and Glasses, 1985.
(Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scie...)
(Our earlier book, How We Know: An Exploration of the Scie...)
( The portraits of Freud, Shakespeare, Einstein, and Leon...)
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Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1945. Fellow American Physical Society. Member American Association of University Professors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi.
Married Inge Futter, March 17, 1954. Children: Eric, Michael, Aviva.