List of Tables
15.1 The Warlpiri Kinship Multiplication Table . . . . . . . . . . . 292
18.1Estimated World Human Population in History . . . . . . . . 342
18.2U.S. Population According to the U.S. Census Bureau . . . . 345
19.1 |
Four-Child Family Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
354 |
19.2 |
Four-Child Family Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
355 |
19.3 |
Four-Child Family Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
359 |
19.4 |
Schwartz Chart for a (Simple-15) K-Child Family . . . . . . . |
361 |
20.1 |
Daily Population in Each Box during Epidemic . . . . . . . . |
396 |
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List of Figures
1.1 |
Filters between You and Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
10 |
1.2 |
Street Grids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
14 |
1.3 |
Hubbert’s Peak for U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
17 |
1.4 |
Carbon Dioxide Concentration in the Atmosphere (1744–2005) |
24 |
4.1 |
CFC-Ozone Smoking Gun Graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
97 |
8.1 |
Diagram of a Syllogism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
187 |
8.2The Fuzzy Boundary between Inside and Outside . . . . . . . 189
8.3Two Curves Close in Distance but Not in Length . . . . . . . 199
10.1Square Numbers of the Ancient Greeks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
10.2Pattern of Boxes (Not Dots) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
10.3Triangular Numbers of the Ancient Greeks . . . . . . . . . . . 228
10.4Connect the Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
11.1 |
Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
253 |
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13.1 |
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269 |
A “Picture” of −1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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13.2Which Way Did the Bicycle Go? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
13.3Three Equilateral Triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
14.1 |
Graphs of Some Relations in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
286 |
15.1 |
Warlpiri Kinship Relation Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
291 |
15.2 |
Isometries of a Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
301 |
16.1 |
Counting Two-Digit Social Security Numbers . . . . . . . . . |
306 |
16.2 |
Opening Your Gym Locker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
311 |
16.3 |
Two Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
314 |
16.4 |
Three Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
314 |
16.5 |
Soap Bubble Roads in Two Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . |
315 |
17.1There are 12 Permutations in One Equivalence Class . . . . . 328
17.2Discrete Random Walk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
17.3 Pascal’s Triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 19.1 Total Population vs. Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
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19.2Log to Base 10 of Total Population vs. Time
19.3One Box Model of World’s Human Population
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360 |
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379 |
20.1Impossible (in the long term): It Violates the Law! . . . . . . 381
20.2Inevitable: It’s the Law! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
20.3Food–Sewage–Food Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
20.4No Recycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
20.5Recycling Increases Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
20.6Box-Flow Diagram of an Influenza Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . 393
20.7Daily Population of the Infected and Dead during Epidemic . 397
21.1 Boxes for Organizing Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
25.1Circulatory System of the Human Economy . . . . . . . . . . 460
25.2Human Economic System with a Digestive Tract . . . . . . . 461
25.3Seeing Nature over the Dollar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
27.1Financial Wealth and Real Wealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
27.2The Gini Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
27.3Fish Growth and Financial Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503
28.1 A Fuzzy Definition of Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523
29.1Maximum Power Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529
29.2Basic Structure of a Steam Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 534
29.3 Two-Compartment Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547
29.4Binomial Distribution of Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549
29.5A Normal Distribution: The Bell-Shaped Curve . . . . . . . . 551
30.1 Graph of f [x] = 1504 [1 − (1 + x)−48] . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564
30.2Visualization of Iteration 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565
30.3Visualization of Iteration 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566
31.1 |
A Culturally Dependent Illusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
582 |
32.1 |
Filters between You and Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
586 |