Calculus for Everyone: What is it & What can it do for You?
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[Note: This Meetup will be followed by “Applying Lessons from Physiology to Four Functions & to Calculus” at 2:30pm applying these calculus ideas to health & fitness. Find out more and RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/mlqtwrybcmbrb/]
Stacy and Shrikant will be talking about calculus. This Meetup is designed to make calculus ideas accessible for everybody.
- Motivation: Impact of Calculus on civilization & Motion as natural.
- Parmenides & Zeno: Motion as unnatural: Two Zeno’s paradoxes of motion (of Discrete motion and continuous
- Infinite Series as the solution to both the paradoxes. Shifting attention to overall pattern.
- Functions
- Computing Gradients & Differential Calculus of Newton & Leibniz
- Differential Equations and growth & decay curves
- Integration & Archimedes Method of exhaustion.
- Conclusion: Calculus and You: Why is calculus useful?
Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science https://youtu.be/P7sJrtwazeI
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/u6372Te2YA8
Aug 16: Your 50 Year Experiment: Ideas of Buckminster Fuller with D W Jacobs https://youtu.be/DnY3ptAjweo
Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Dr Angela Cotellessa https://youtu.be/ltbPex0oVAY
Aug 26: The Art-Experience and The Architecture of Our Identities with Karen Montanaro https://youtu.be/MwduocAYKZ8
Aug 30: Polymath Research & Sparks of Genius with Drs Robert & Michele Root-Bernstein https://youtu.be/hxkKd2XqkWI
Aug 30: Overview of Four Systems/Functions: Intuition, Deliberation, Transformation & Valuing with Shrikant: https://youtu.be/tSIbCp9N02s
Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay
Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley
Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant
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