When it comes to understanding American literature, such as how The Aquarian Conspiracy connects to The Whole Earth Catalog, and The Well, or how The Dome Handbook connects to ZomeTool, one needs to understand the Jitterbug Transformation.
Why?
Because Bucky's career is a switchboard and essential puzzle piece, and yes, his thinking was influential, even if not comprehended.
People got the dome, and saw why buckminsterfullerene was an apt naming of the molecule.
Not that the Jitterbug is that obscure or hard to learn about.
Where would it be on the SAT? Might it be more of a literature question? ACT maybe?
The assumption, I suppose, is that any interesting high school level mathematics, especially geometry, has to be part of the math section of the SAT.
But then look at Synergetics. Mostly prose. The Omnidirectional Halo concept (in both Synergetics and No More Secondhand God) is more about heuristics, a way to think about thinking.
We need the "whole number volumes" (a meme) to understand the literature at least, and by extension the history.
PATH (Philosophy, Anthropology e.g. art, Theater e.g. politics, History) has its own metaphysical tensegrities i.e. mental constructs that cohere, make sense.
