Syllabus

• 1W 02 apr: introduction
  • introduction to the course
  • chaos and the millenium
• 1F 04 apr: the world according to the great WIT
  • the five cultural ecologies: RGADX
• 2M 07 apr
  • quiz 1
• 2W 09 apr: the rg veda as a Rithmetic monument
  • tour of the website
  • the rig veda, a monumental text of the Rithmetic cultural ecology
• 2F 11 apr: the sheldrake principle, bifurcations
  • projects, quiz report
  • the sheldrake principle and math anxiety
  • an introduction to attractors, basins, and bifurcations
  • the rig veda: an arithmetic monument
• 3M 14 apr
  • quiz 2
• 3W 16 apr: the megaliths of britain
  • cultural transformation theory of riane eisler
  • the platonic year as a scale of time for the holocene
  • pre-geometric geometry: the megalithic monuments of britain
• 3F 18 apr: the bull/ram collapse
  • Castleden's conclusion, compare Riane Eisler
  • maps, pyramids
  • comparative chronograph for stonehenge and ancient egypt
• 4W 23 apr: geometric geometry
  • discussion of projects for the course
  • tour of the euclid project
• 4F 25 apr: the geometric bifurcation
  • the side and the square, proof
  • the side and the square, chronograph
• 5W 30 apr: the algebraic bifurcation
  • Prop. 5 of Book of Euclid's Elements
  • Al-Mamun at the Great Pyramid
  • chronology of the bait al-hikma
• 5F 02 may: pre-algebraic algebra
  • the area and perimeter, a babylonian problem
  • chronograph of the bifurcations to date
• 6W 07 may: the A/D shift
  • histomap of the A/D shift
  • ancient calculus
  • medieval kinematics
• 6F 09 may: discussion (no recording, no website)
• 7W 14 may: Newton vs Leibniz; Fleck and the sociology of science
• 7F: X theory, bifurcations (3 types)
• 8M: no meeting
• 8W: The D/X shift: Vector calculus, Poincare, 1882
• 8F: The D/X shift: Poincare and Kovalevskaya, 1889-91
• 9M: the chaos revolution (tuesday)
• 9W: Summary histomaps (last lecture)
• 9F, 10M, 10W, 10F: presentations (see "projects")