Practical Systematics: Framework of Multiple Interactions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781479393251)

Richard A. Burbank holds degrees in engineering from Lowell Technological Institute (B.S.) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (M.S. and PhD.) He achieved professional status as a musician, teacher, and research associate before joining E.I. DuPont. His career in DuPont included R&D, operations, and several advancing levels of international management including Asia-Pacific Business Director and President of a joint-venture Japanese company. He and his wife Kathleen lived in Tokyo for 5 years before returning to the USA and retiring in central Virginia. They are proud parents of three daughters and five grandchildren. Current interests include music, art, and philosophy. In music, he plays established melodies with creative improvisations. In art, he paints watercolors featuring his own, unique, mosaic-style technique. In 2007 Burbank published an original system of logic based on triadic structures: THREE TERM LOGIC. The common theme in his music, painting, logic and philosophical texts is the extension beyond the dyadic true-or-false and right-or-wrong thinking habitually taken for granted in Western cultures.