Spirallalia: a TRS Lexicon

All You Need to Know to TRS-Speak with Confidence and Authority, and to read the PentaTEWCH
(the five books of The Thompson Encyclopedia of World Cultural History
History Math Dyn Hist School
  • cultural ecology
  • math mentality
  • status, millennium
Ref: WIT-1,2
  • dynamical system
  • attractor
  • basin
  • dynamical scheme
  • bifurcation
  • complex system
Ref: RHA-1,2; FDA
  • chronograph
  • chronology
  • histomap
  • bifurcation
  • historiography
  • math of history
Ref: RHA-3
  • domain
  • grade
  • thread
  • unit
  • Sheldrake principle
  • anachronism
  • integration, vertical
  • integration, horizontal
  • spiral
  • math anxiety
Ref: WIT-3

References

FDA: Fred Abraham, Dynamics, a Visual Introduction
A brief introduction to dynamical systems, chaos, bifurcations, complex dynamics
RHA-1: Ralph Abraham and Jerrold Marsden, Foundations of Mechanics
Ch. 9 is a brief dynamics text for mathematicians
RHA-2: Ralph Abraham and Chris Shaw, Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior
Pictorial introduction in 650 pages with 800 drawings in four colors
RHA-3: Ralph Abraham, Chaos, Gaia, Eros
See Part I, an introduction to dynamical historiography
See also various articles
WIT-1, William Irwin Thompson, Pacific Shift
See esp. Ch. 4 on the four cultural ecologies
WIT-2: William Irwin Thompson, Coming into Being
An analysis of the archetypical texts of the four cultural ecologies
WIT-3: William Irwin Thompson, TRS documents
The spiral is revealed in a series of papers
See various articles
Revised 08 August 1998 by Ralph H. Abraham