Shared by Curt McNamara with the Trimtab Book Club

We are meeting Siobhan Roberts in our Trimtab Book Club today.

The Hidden History of the Geodesic Dome - Part 3: The Teamwork of Walter Gropius

Understanding one’s limitations leads to a recognition of the power of relationships in an interconnected and interdependent world.

The Hidden History of the Geodesic Dome - Part 3: The Teamwork of Walter Gropius

Understanding one’s limitations leads to a recognition of the power of relationships in an interconnected and interdependent world.

Alicia was the only Boole sister to inherit the mathematical career of her parents, although her mother Mary Everest Boole had brought up all of her five children from an early age 'to acquaint them with the flow of geometry' by projecting shapes onto paper, hanging pendulums etc. She was first exposed to geometric models by her brother-in-law Charles Howard Hinton when she was 17, and developed the ability to visualise in a fourth dimension. She found that there were exactly six regular polytopes in four dimensions and that they are bounded by 5, 16 or 600 tetrahedra, 8 cubes, 24 octahedra or 120 dodecahedra.

Team Syntegrity

Stafford Beer created Team Syntegrity as a methodology for social interaction that predisposes participants towards shared agreement among varied and sometimes conflicting interests, without compromising the legitimate claims and integrity of those interests. This paper outlines the methodology and the underlying philosophy, describing several applications in a variety of countries and contexts, indicating why such an approach causes us to re-think more traditional approaches to group decision processes, and relating Team Syntegrity to other systems approaches.

Shared by Kirby Urner in the Trimtab Book Club

Kirby Urner’s site on Synergetics

Lionel Wolberger, member of the Trimtab Book Club.

Complexity Weekend

Daniel Friedman, a member of the Trimtab Book Club, is inviting people to be facilitators in Complexity Weekend.

The next book for the Trimtab Book Club.

Shared by Curt McNamara with the Trimtab Book Club.