Ralph H. Abraham

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