Academic Acceptance
Fuller hoped to gain traction for his ideas and nomenclature by dedicating Synergetics to H.S.M. Coxeter (with permission) and by citing page 71 of the latter's Regular Polytopes to suggest where his A & B modules (depicted above) might enter the literature (see Fig. 950.12). Dr. Arthur Loeb provided a prologue and an appendix to Synergetics discussing its overlap with crystallography, chemistry and virology.
However few if any academic departments, outside of Literature, have much tolerance for such an intuitive and/or exploratory approach, even with a track record of inventions and successes attached. Synergetics is difficult to pigeon-hole and is not in the style of any currently practiced discipline. E.J. Applewhite, Fuller's chief collaborator on Synergetics, related it to Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka: A Prose Poem, in terms of its being a metaphysical work.
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