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Mathematics and Life 9 Dimensions of Creativity

 Dimensions of Creativity


During my Ph. D. working, I wrote a short poem about a creative person


Such people are very few

Who can see, feel, things, people a new

When I look around in search

I find such a person in you.


Back to Prof. Passi class on Creativity, he explained 


Fluency

Flexibility 

Originality as the three key dimensions of creativity


Fluency Idea fluency means how fast and how many relevant ideas someone may produce on that point of discussion. Brainstorming where all participants share ideas and then a decision is reached 


https://youtu.be/FkvCBUvH6Zc


Flexibility Flexibility refers to the length, width, depth to which you go about the idea. It denotes the key variations in the idea.


For example, if you have reply    - +  -  = 55, find two numbers that add upto give 55. All the answers adding two positive integers to get 55 are treated as one category like 1 + 54, 9 + 46 and so on….

However,  using a negative number is a flexible answer, say -2 + 57 = 55 or -20 + 75 = 55.

Likewise, using decimals or fractions will be another category of flexibility.


Originality The most difficult to judge, find, attribute of creativity. Originality refers to finding a response that no one thought of. All designer products come under this category, which are one of their types. 


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