Ralph Abraham
Ralph Abraham was a mathematician and chaos theorist and a professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, after teaching at UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Princeton. He was the founding director of the Visual Math Institute in Santa Cruz, California. He is the author of math texts, including Foundations of Mechanics with Jerrold Marsden and Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior with Christopher Shaw. He has written several philosophical books – including Chaos, Gaia, Eros – and coauthored two volumes with Rupert Sheldrake and Terence McKenna.
He designed the curriculum for the Ross School, grades 5-12, with cultural historian William Irwin Thompson and lectured and led seminars worldwide on chaos theory.
