RALPH H. ABRAHAM
RALPH H. ABRAHAM, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Cruz since 1968, has taught at Berkeley, Columbia, and Princeton, and also held visiting teaching positions in Amsterdam, Paris, Warwick, Barcelona, Basel, and Florence. Active on the research frontier of dynamics and chaos theory, he is a leading consultant on chaos theory and its appications in medical physiology, psychotherapy, mathematical economics, world cultural his- tory and ecology. He is the founding editor of World Futures, and the International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos. He has authored advanced texts on chaos theory as well as three books on philosophy: Trialogues at the Edge of the West (with Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake, 1992), The Evolutionary Mind (1998), and Chaos, Gaia, Eros (1994). Since 1992, he has also contributed to performances in visual and aural mathematics and music. Together with the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson, he recently designed the innovative curriculum of the Ross School in East Hampton, New York. He has also conducted workshps on world cultural history, mathematics and philosophy at the Esalen Institute, Omega Institute, and other centers. Revised 20 March 2001 by Ralph |