Alan Garfinkel
agarfinkel.bsky.social
Alan Garfinkel
@agarfinkel.bsky.social
His Dynamics: the Geometry of Behavior (with Chris Shaw) told the story of nonlinear dynamics in a picture-centric comic-book style. We and many others are currently drawing heavily on these ideas to teach dynamics to undergraduates, in our case to UCLA Life Science freshmen.
November 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM
The math world lost a giant in September, with the death of Ralph Abraham. Ralph’s paradigm-changing Foundations of Mechanics (with Jerry Marsden) laid out the differential geometric and topological foundations of global analysis. (1/n)
November 26, 2024 at 9:44 PM