BIOSPHERICS 101 - PRESENTATION FIVE - Physicist Albert Bartlett once called the mathematics of the exponential function "The World's Most Important Arithmetic" - and this PowerPoint helps show us the reasons why.
Not only are exponential progressions...
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BIOSPHERICS 101 - PRESENTATION FIVE - Physicist Albert Bartlett once called the mathematics of the exponential function "The World's Most Important Arithmetic" - and this PowerPoint helps show us the reasons why.
Not only are exponential progressions exceedingly powerful (think J-curves and explosions), but their behaviors are also profoundly misleading and dangerously counterintuitive.
This open-courseware PowerPoint introduces the behavior of such "non-linear" growth in population systems - with particular emphasis on its implications, dangers, and counterintuitive behaviors.
This is "PowerPoint 5" in our "Biospherics Literacy 101" collection and is made available courtesy of The Wecskaop Project (What Every Citizen Should Know About Our Planet).
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