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 [1]
Affiliations
- Editor for the technical journals World Futures
- Fellow, Lindisfarne Association
- Cofounder, General Evolution Research Group
