Ralph Abraham: Fulbright Tour, India, 2005-2006

Lectures #2-6: Dynamical Systems Theory

West Bengal Institute of Technology (WBUT)
Salt Lake City, Kolkata, Monday-Friday, Dec. 19-13, 2005

This was a five-lecture short course, in connection with the WBUT Winter School on Complexity. The talks were illustrated with Chris Shaw's drawings from Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior, the new eBook version.

  • Lecture #2: History and Significance of Chaos Theory
  • Lecture #3: Stairway to Chaos
  • Lecture #4: Taxonomy of Bifurcations
  • Lecture #5: Complex Dynamical Systems
  • Lecture #6: Agent Based Models
Revised January 29, 2006 by Ralph Abraham