Math Musings II: Chaos and the Environment
A course of 5 evening lectures by Ralph Abraham
(no math prerequisite)
Dates: June 12, 19, 26, July 10, 17
- 2.1. math and the millennium:
cultural creativity and the future
do we really have to take psychedelics?
- 2.2. the end of math education:
the SAT and other disasters
will the real mathematics please stand up
- 2.3. math and the environment:
monarch migrations and other miracles
watersheds, forest fires, and the Gaia hypothesis
- 2.4. complixity and fixxy logic:
guide to the perplexed
x-ing the paragrab
- 2.5. fractals and fringes:
the biggest thing since euclid
and how it passed unnoticed
Revised Tue 19 April 2000 by Ralph