The Essential Exponential: For the Future of Our Planet (Albert A. Bartlett)

Kevin M. Dunn
Chemistry Department, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943
J. Chem. Educ., 2006, 83 (4), p 549
DOI: 10.1021/ed083p549.2
Publication Date (Web): April 1, 2006

Abstract

“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” This is the central message of The Essential Exponential by Albert A. Bartlett, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder

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