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almahu_9949915307202882
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1 online resource (669 pages)
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9781439834732
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1439834733
Content:
MATHEMATICS IS CONNECTED TO EVERYTHING ELSEEarth's Climate and Some Basic Principles One of the Greatest Crimes of the 20th Century Feedback Edison's Algorithm: Listening to Nature's Feedback Fuzzy Logic, Filters, the Bigger Picture Principle Consequences of the Crime: Suburbia's Topology A Toxic Consequence of the Crime Hubbert's Peak and the End of Cheap Oil Resource Wars: Oil and Water The CO2 Greenhouse Law of Svante ArrheniusEconomic Instability: Ongoing Causes Necessary Conditions for Economic Success The Mathematical Structure of Ponzi Schemes Dishonest Assessment of Risk One Reason Why.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Why Did I Write This Book?; Reading, Learning and/or Teaching from This Book; Acknowledgments; Part I: Mathematics Is Connected to Everything; Chapter 1: Earth's Climate and Some Basic Principles; Chapter 2: Economic Instability: Ongoing Causes; Chapter 3: What Is Mathematics? More Basics; Chapter 4: We All Soak in a Synthetic Chemical Soup; Chapter 5: Mathematics: Food, Soil, Water, Air, Free Speech; Chapter 6: Mathematics and Energy; Chapter 7: The Brower-Cousteau Model of the Earth.
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Chapter 8: Fuzzy Logic, Sharp Logic, Frames, and Bigger PicturesChapter 9: The Dunbar Number, Political Power, Public Relations, and Fear: Can Humans Act Sustainably?; Part II: Math and Nature: The Nature of Math; Chapter 10: One Pattern Viewed via Geometry and Numbers: Mathese; Chapter 11: Axioms and Atoms; Chapter 12: Five More Axioms for Numbers; Chapter 13 What Patterns Can Be Deduced in Our Deductive System?; Part III: One of the Oldest Mathematical Patterns; Chapter 14: A Short Story and Some Numberless Mathematics; Chapter 15: A Set of Social Rules for the Warlpiri People.
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Part IV: CountingChapter 16: Counting Exactly; Chapter 17: Equivalence Relations and Counting; Part V: Box Models: Population, Money, Recycling; Chapter 18: Some Population Numbers; Chapter 19: Basic Mathematical Patterns in Population Growth; Chapter 20: Box Models: Money, Recycling, Epidemics; Part VI: Chance: Health, Surveillance, Spies, and Voting; Chapter 21: Chance: Health and News; Chapter 22: Surveillance, Spies, Snitches, Loss of Privacy, and Life; Chapter 23: Identity Theft, Encryption, Torture, Planespotting; Chapter 24: Voting in the 21st Century; Part VII: Economics.
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Chapter 25: What Exactly Is Economics?Chapter 26: Mathematical Concepts and Economics; Chapter 27: The Concept of Money; Chapter 28: Distributed vs. Centralized Control and Decision Making; Chapter 29: Energy and Thermodynamics; Chapter 30: The Financial Mathematics of Loans, Debts, and Compound Interest; Part VIII: Media Literacy; Chapter 31: Information Flow in the 21st Century; Chapter 32: Media Literacy: Censorship and Propaganda; References.
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Print version: Walter, Martin. Mathematics for the Environment. Hoboken : CRC Press, ©2011 ISBN 9781439834725
Language:
English
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