Synergetics 2. Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking

"It is the essence of synergy to produce unpredicted - indeed, unpredictable - results like the surprise geometrical discoveries of this second volume." First edition of the second volume in Fuller’s landmark work, Synergetics. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with diagrams. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To: Jim Chaturckthy, On the occasion of our meeting at Oakland University which gave me the opportunity to make a drawing for your daughter Jennifer who is of the generation which he hope will make our planet Earth work for everyone. Buckminster Fuller Jan 31 1980.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rubin Pfeffer. Author photograph by Fred Blocher. When R. Buckminster Fuller's landmark work Synergetics was published, it was hailed as "brilliant... and shot through with moments of poetry..." (The New York Times Book Review) and the "distilled wisdom of a lifetime spent contemplating the Universe from angles and directions never before suspected" ( Arthur C. Clarke). In Synergetics 2, Fuller explores further along the trails of thought he been singlehandedly blazed for over half a century using an inspired combination of geometrical logic and metaphors from human experience, inviting the reader on a trip through a four-dimensional Universe where concepts as diverse as entropy, Einstein's relativity equations, and the meaning of existence become understandable to the lay reader.