"What mathematics should any well-educated person know? It’s rather rare that people have a chance not just to think about this question, but do something about it. But it’s happening now."
That is the beginning of an interesting article on Azimuth by John Baez, which I'm reposting because of its relevance to my environmental mathematics project. He goes on:
"There’s a new college called Yale-NUS College
starting up this fall in Singapore, jointly run by Yale University and
the National University of Singapore. The buildings aren’t finished
yet: the above picture shows how a bit of it should look when they are.
Faculty are busily setting up the courses and indeed the whole
administrative structure of the university, and I’ve had the privilege
of watching some of this and even helping out a bit."
Read the full article here.
Polarities (Part 3)
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I’m talking about ‘causal loop diagrams’, which are graph with edges
labeled by ‘polarities’. Often the polarities are simply and signs, like
here: But pol...
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