Saturday, May 29, 2010

I thought I understood the exponential function..

When Prof. Albert Bartlett started this lecture with the line "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function" I thought to myself "possibly nothing new here...what could be there that I don't know about exponential functions after dealing with it for half a decade now". Turns out I couldn't be more wrong.

Watch this to know what implications an exponential function has on a lot of things including human population, energy consumption and other major issues faced by the human race.



The play list for the entire lecture is here.


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