The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet - a book by Albert A. Bartlett


 
The Essential Exponential - a book by Al Bartlett

The Essential Exponential! For the Future of Our Planet

by Albert A. Bartlett
University of Colorado at Boulder
with Robert G. Fuller,
Vicki L. Plano Clark
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
and John A. Rogers, Westside High School, Omaha NE

Center for Science, Mathematics & Computer Education, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, ISBN 0-9758973-0-6


 

The book contains reprints of Prof. Bartlett's papers on exponential arithmetic, energy, population and sustainability. Also included are related major articles by M. King Hubbert and L. David Roper.

Bartlett, Rogers, Fuller, Plano Clark

Professor Albert A. Bartlett (seated), with John A. Rogers, Westside High School (on the left), Robert G. Fuller, UNL and Vicki L. Plano Clark, UNL. (Photo courtesy John Rogers).

Order

You can order the book, "The Essential Exponential!", from: the University of Colorado bookstore, Boulder, Colorado ($18 plus shipping and handling).

You can also order a video DVD of Al Bartlett's talk, "Arithmetic, Population and Energy ($12 plus shipping and handling).

CU Bookstore, Campus Box 36, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0036 Phone 303 492-3445. The book is also available online at the CU Bookstore.

You can also order from the University of Nebraska, Center for Science, Mathematics & Computer Education, Lincoln, Nebraska. (Book and DVD: $30 plus shipping and handling).

(Prof. Bartlett accepts no royalties from the sales of these DVDs and books.)

Book review

Also see: Book Review of The Essential Exponential, by John Attarian, The Social Contract, Fall, 2005.




Table of Contents - The Essential Exponential

Preface

Chapter 1 - Exponential Recollections

Chapter 2 - On Energy

Articles by Albert A. Bartlett

Chapter 3 - On Population

Articles by Albert A. Bartlett

Chapter 4 - On Resources

Articles by Albert A. Bartlett

  • "Sustained Availability: a Management Program for Nonrenewable Resources",
    American Journal of Physics, Vol. 54, May 1986, pgs. 398-402
  • "Expert Predictions of the Lifetimes of Non-renewable Resources",
    The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 78, No. 482, July 1994, pgs. 127-129
  • "Reflections on sustainability population growth, and the environment-revisited", Renewable Resources J., Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 1997-98, pgs. 6-23 [Also see "Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment"]
  • "Letters in response to the article above",
    Renewable Resources Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 1998, pgs. 6, 7, 24

Chapter 5 - Related Articles by M. King Hubbert and L. David Roper

Chapter 6 - The Arithmetic of Growth

Articles by Albert A. Bartlett

Chapter 7 - The Exponential Function

Articles by Albert A. Bartlett

Chapter 8 - Endnotes

by Robert G. Fuller, Vicki L. Plano Clark and John A. Rogers

Chapter 9 - Annotated Bibliography of Exponential Articles by Albert A. Bartlett

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