Ralph Abraham

Professor of Mathematics

Chaos Theory, Computation

• 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
• Lectures and leads seminars worldwide on chaos theory.