Ralph H. Abraham

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Biographical Information

• 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, Calif.,
• 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 cultural historian William Irwin Thompson

Affiliations

• Editor for the technical journals World Futures
• Fellow, Lindisfarne Association
• Cofounder, General Evolution Research Group