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Explorations in the geometry of thinking, volume 1. Press the button start search and wait a little while. It gains its validity not from classic abstractions but from the results of individual physical experience. Buckminster fuller introduced and began to formulate. Explorations in the geometry of thinking has 2 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. Explorations in the geometry of thinking by buckminster fuller 1982, paperback at. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Over my delight to even have a copy, i find the one that.
Using an inspired combination of geometric logic and metaphors from familiar human experience, bucky invites readers to join him on a trip through a fourdimensional universe, where concepts as diverse as entropy, einsteins relativity equations, and the meaning of existence become clear, understandable. Applewhite synergetics is the empirical study of systems in transformation, with an emphasis on total synergetics is defined by r. This is a an 800 page condensation of buckminster fullers 50year investigations into geometry, mathematics, physics, and metaphysics. Further explorations in the geometry of thinking r. Explanations in the geometry of thinking, a book that discusses the utopic role technology will play in the future. Buckminster fuller 18951983 in his two books synergetics. Explorations in the geometry of thinking richard buckminster fuller, e. Synergetics was the summation of fullers philosophy. His last book, grunch of giants, summarizes his most important. The synergetics collaborative snec is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing together a diverse group of people with an interest in buckminster fullers synergetics in facetoface workshops, symposia, seminars, powwows, and other meetings to educate and support research and understanding of the many facets of synergetics, its methods and principles. Using an inspired combination of geometric logic and metaphors from familiar human experience, bucky invites readers to join him on a trip through a fourdimensional universe, where concepts as diverse as entropy, einsteins relativity equations, and the meaning of existence become clear, understandable, and immediatel. Explorations in the geometry of thinking 1975, in collaboration with e. I was inspired to join this forum by your math writings, but this thread is more fun than the book itself.
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