Math 181, Spring 1997
Bifurcations in Mathematical History, by Ralph H. Abraham
Bibliography:
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Lectures:
- Lecture 1W,
02 April 97: Introduction, Chaos and the Millenium
- Lecture 1F,
04 April 97: The World according to The Great WIT
- Lecture 2W,
09 April 97: The Rig Veda as a Rithmetic monument
- Lecture 2F,
11 April 97: The Sheldrake principle, bifurcations
- Lecture 3W,
16 April 97: The Megaliths of Britain
- Lecture 3F,
18 April 97: The Bull/Ram collapse
- Lecture 4W,
23 April 97: Geometric geometry: Euclid's Elements
- Lecture 4F,
25 April 97: The R/G shift: rad two, 430 BC
- Lecture 5W,
30 April 97: The G/A shift: Baghdad, 825 AD
- Lecture 5F,
02 May 97: The G/A shift: Babylon vs Baghdad
- Lecture 6W,
07 May 97: The A/D shift
- Lecture 6F,
09 May 97: Exhortation
- Lecture 7W,
14 May 97: Newton vs Leibniz, Fleck
- Lecture 7F,
16 May 97: X Theory
- Lecture 8W,
21 May 97: The D/X shift, Poincare, 1882
- Lecture 8F,
23 May 97: The D/X shift, Poincare and Kovalevskaya, 1889-91
- Lecture 9M,
27 May 97: The Chaos Revolution
- Lecture 9W,
28 May 97: Summary
Revised 12 June 1997 by Ralph H. Abraham