Word: non-linear
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Most of the tapes are textually linear, but they are used in non-linear ways. A videotape of The Who singing "We Ain't Gonna Take It" is intercut on five screens with an interview about the Panthers with a black woman. The cuts back and forth are made in time with the music, and the effect is mindblowing. Instant America...
...book and facing the distressing fiscal facts contained therein, I rushed forth and bought a color television set of heroic dimensions, broke off all diplomatic relations with my book clubs, and now, with shriveled soul and bated breath, I wait for the dawn of McLuhan's Millennium of Non-Linear Information...
Included among Arrow's well known works are Social Choice and Individual Value, Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming, and Aspects of the Theory of Risk-Bearing. He also co-edited Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences and has done research in such diverse fields as education and medical economic theory...
Another poor analogy is the application of linearity to social systems by assuming that effect is proportional to cause. It may be accurate in most of science, Purcell said, but it is "wildly untrue in human affairs. Any historical event is utterly non-linear, the result of a large number of causes." Thus, he said, you cannot assign weights to various causes...
...invitation of the mathematical department, Mr. A. Chessin will deliver a short course of lectures on "Non-linear Partial Differential Equations of the First Order." The first lecture will be given on March 20, at 3.30 p. m., in Sever...