Portrait

Ralph Abraham

Professor of Mathematics

Chaos Theory, Computation


INDEX


About Ralph
Articles
Audiotapes
Biography
Blogs
Books, Math
Books, History
Books, Hip Santa Cruz
Books, Philosophy
Books, at Amazon
Books, at Kindle
Concerts
Consulting: Ross
Courses
Events
Hip Santa Cruz History
Interviews
Lectures
Memorials
Movies
Reviews
Trialogues
Trip Reports
Videotapes
Websites, Ralph
Websites, VisMath
Websites, Research
Workshops
  • Mathematician and chaos theorist since 1958.
  • Professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz since 1968.
  • Formerly professor at UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Princeton.
  • Founding director of the Visual Math Institute in Santa Cruz, California.
  • Author of math texts, including:
    • Foundations of Mechanics with Jerrold Marsden, and
    • Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior with Christopher Shaw.
  • Author of philosophical books including:
    • Chaos, Gaia, Eros, and
    • Chaos, Cosmos, and Creativity with Rupert Sheldrake and Terence McKenna.
  • Designed the curriculum for the Ross School, grades 5-12, with the late cultural historian William Irwin Thompson.
  • Lectures on chaos theory.

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