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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...cortex of the brain?’ That is an early example of the way in which a theory of control began to arise from the merging of established sciences. Who could fail to be excited by the fact that these two men, who knew little of each other's professional fields, had the same formal insight into so deep a question? Nor was this synthesis of ideas to prove a futile...
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...cortex of the brain... Understanding, and making sense of, the world that we see is a very important part of our evolution. Therefore, spatial intuition or spatial perception is an enormously powerful tool and that is why geometry is actually such a powerful part of mathematics – not only for things that are obviously geometrical, but even for things that are not. We...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...cortex, and the cerebellum.] Figure 7 Images of fMRI scans of an adolescent male on the autism spectrum (right) compared with an age- and IQ-matched typically developing control (left). Atypical patterns of brain activity are also observed when autistic people perform tasks such as the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ test illustrated earlier. (See Lai, Lombardo and...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs