The Magical Number Three--Plus or Minus Zero: Transparencies

A set of 13 transparencies used for “The Magical Number Three--Plus or Minus Zero.” Presented at the International Conference of Society for General Systems Research, 1-6 June 1987, Budapest, Hungary. The paper reinterpreted the work of George Miller and H.A. Simon from the perspective of mathematical logic and shows that, especially in systems design, three is the “magic number.”

Titles of transparencies used in the talk: 1. Spans of Mental Activities 2. Measures of Absolute Judgement 3. Measures of Span of Immediate Recall 4. Elementary Digraph 5. Elementary Digraph with Associations 6. Digraph with Five Vertices 7. Lattice of Partitions on a 3-element Set 8. Lattice of Subsets of a 3-element Set 9. Levels in the Lattice of Subsets 10. Selected Values of PI (n, k) 11. Selected Values of PI (n, k) (same as transparency # 10, except bigger scale and better, clearer figures, easier to read). 12a. Inner Cycle of 19 Members for Pascal Syntax 12b. Inner Cycle of 19 Members for Pascal Syntax (same as transparency # 12a, except bigger scale and better, clearer figures, easier to read). Please click here “The Magical Number Three--Plus or Minus Zero.” for a link to the article for which these transparencies were displayed.


 

Additional Info

  • Category: Design Theory and Methodology, Mathematics of Modeling, Systems Science
  • Size: 12 min 49 sec
  • Description: Publisher's offprint, emails and manuscripts
  • Publication Year: 1988
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