Pete received the original presentaion PDF from Ruth Charney. It's now uploaded here for those interested: http://www.redfish.com/friam/Charney_MAA10-08.pdf
Thanks, Pete! -Steve On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:47 PM, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes great stuff BUT sad that the you tube postings of the presentations suck > and are un-viewable due to poor camera work ( I have emailed Ruth for a copy > of her power point presentation and will post it when I get it ) > > There is also a fascinating guy on a similar program called Martin > Golubitsky http://www.maa.org/news/090508mg.html and > http://www.math.uh.edu/~mg/ discussing " Patterns Patterns Everywhere " > which will blow your socks of ( Sadly same problem as Ruth's with the camera > work and ditto with the powerpoint posting if he will send it to me.) > > I heard a lecture or interview of his once in which he says " Its especially > important to realize that most models are just theories which may have no > connection to anything in real life except in the mind of the modeler " > Just about says it all. > > ( : ( : pete > > Peter Baston > > IDEA- > > www.ideapete.com > > > > > > Tom Johnson wrote: > > From the Internet Scout.... > > > Ruth Charney on Modeling with Cubes [Macromedia Flash Player] > > http://www.maa.org/news/102308charney.html > > The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) continues to build on their > already solid online presence with the addition of this lecture by noted > mathematician and scholar Professor Ruth Charney. This particular lecture > was given at the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center in the fall of 2008 > and it deals with how cubes can be used to represent a variety of systems. > As Charney notes, "The geometry of these spaces is strange, complicated, and > a lot of fun to study." Visitors to the site can watch several particularly > lucid examples from Charney's talk, read her biography, and also read a > detailed interview with her conducted by Michael Pearson. [KMG] > > tj > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ========================================== > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.redfish.com 624 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 mobile: (505)577-5828 office: (505)995-0206 london: +44 (0) 20 7993 4769 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
