Summer, 2013
- Chaotic attractors of discrete dynamical systems
- Fractal Notes
- Working with Ben Niell on a Visual Math performance instrument
Fall, 2010
- Grant proposal for a Kepler play
- Working with Nina Wise and the Morrison Planetarium
- Soroban instruction in grade 2
- Working with the Ross School to implement our program
- Reviving the MIMI concerts
- Working with Mutant Trumpeter Ben Neill and new software
Winter, 2010
- Chaos theory apps for the iPhone:
Xaos Magick
- Working with Kelley Landaker, Katie Scott, Evan Schaffer, and Steve Cross
Summer, 2009
- New website on math for kids:
Soroban Tutorials
Spring, 2005
- New website on research project:
Electric Sheep
- New website on research project:
3D Visualization
Fall, 2004
- New website on research project:
Landscape Dynamics
Winter, 2002
- New website on Kepler
- The
Pythagorean Kepler:
all about the
model for the solar system with spherical shells
spaced by the Platonic solids; and the music
played on them by the six planets
Winter, 2001
- Our outreach to India is moving forward.
- We are affiliated with universities
in Santiniketan and Calcutta in
West Bengal.
- We are active in the creation of the
Einstein Institutes, in India,
USA, and
Germany, and elsewhere.
Spring, 2000
- Sunday, May 07, 2000. Daisyworld simulation.
- A research project, long
on the back burner, is heating up. This
is devoted to the Daisyworld model of James Lovelock,
central to his Gaia Hypothesis.
- We have just added a new website for this project,
Gaia.
- Sunday, April 01, 2000. Our expansion into India.
- I have just returned from Calcutta and Santiniketan,
in West Bengal, India. Plans are underway to open
branches of the Visual Math Institute in India.
Winter, 2000
- Tuesday, February 22, 2000. The Big Test.
- New book outline in the
SAT FAQ section.
- Friday, January 7, 2000. The case of the missing grants!!
- Yesterday, the San Jose Mercury News
reported the arrest of XXXX in Seattle.
She is in jail in San Jose facing potential
criminal charges, for defrauding 20 Silicon Valley firms
of $103,000 intended as grant support for our
Euclid Project, support which we did not receive.
For the record, the Visual Math Institute
entered into an agreement
with XXXX, as YYY, Inc.
in December of 1996. According to this agreement, she would
seek corporate grants for the Euclid Project,
and pass on to us 50% of all grants received.
In addition, we paid $1500 as a startup fee.
During the first half of 1997, we received four
checks from YYY, Inc. totalling $3500. We understood
that there were no further grants, and then
XXXX moved away. These four grants
were acknowledged on our sponsors page.
Naturally we are very interested in contacting
any of the firms which have offerred us support
in the intervening two and a half years.
The Euclid Project has cost $38,000 so far,
since inception in May of 1995, and has
at least $12,000 to go to finish the two
volumes currently in production. These
expenses are for illustration staff only,
and to not cover the operating expenses
of the institute.
Fall, 1999
- Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems
JPX
- This text for chaos theory by Abraham, Gardini, and Mira,
published in 1997, is rather expensive due to the
hardcover and the CDROM
included. As it has not been possible to bring
out an inexpensive paper edition with no CDROM,
we are going to post part of the book here.
This will include the front matter, the first
of the three parts (Part I, Basic Concepts, 3 chapters),
and the two historical appendices of Part III.
- The yarrow stalk oracle
- Full simulation of the yarrow stalk oracle
posted, as well as a number of brief notes
on the probabilities of the results.
Summer, 1999
- The yarrow stalk oracle
[Go there]
- The yarrow stalk oracle is used as a pedagogical
application of chaos theory, and the I Ching is
compared to bifurcation theory.
A chaos theoretic simulation of the yarrow stalk
oracle is presently under construction.
- The Chaos lab [Go there]
- Links to experiments in 1D and 2D discrete dynamical systems
(from a UCSC course) have been collected on this page.
- The FAQs [Go there]
- All but one of the FAQs were posted October 1, 1997
and have been waiting for HTML formatting
ever since. So at last they are improved,
and the missing one (the Chaos FAQ)
has been posted.
- VCE, the Visual Constructions of Euclid
- The second draft of was finished last April 15th
(PDF format only). The third draft is now underway,
and the first five are finished (HTML, PDF, and SWF formats).
Spring, 1999
- Transcripts of talks by Ralph, 1983-1996
[Go there]
- Seven more transcripts have been posted.
Total now is about 24.
- Transcripts of interviews by Ralph, 1987-1998
[Go there]
- Three transcripts have been posted.
- The constructions of Euclid
- The first draft of CatasQI,
our visual edition of the 48 constructions
of Euclid's plane geometry, is finished.
We are posting the first draft of the 48 planar constructions
in four formats: [HTML], [PDF], [GIF], and [SWF].
Winter, 1999
- Chaotica
- Chaotica, aka the Chaos Center (our website for Chaos Theory)
is coming to life after a long lapse
Fall, 1998
- Chaos course
- Winter term at UCSC, beginning Monday January 04, 1999
- Rare offerring of the traditional chaos theory class
- Auditors welcome (MWF 9:30am in Appl Sci 152, seats 156)
Summer, 1998
- SimMud at last, Aug 15
- After two years on the back burner, the bioremediation
of the Pelham Bay Landfill is hot.
- Weekend workshop at the Omega Institute, July 31
- The mathematics of chaos and bifurcation
- Homeokinetics 1998, July 24
- The birth of algebra
as a reaction-diffusion system
- at Arthur Iberall's 80th Festschrift, Univ Conn
Spring, 1998
- 07 May 1998:
Public trialogues at UCSC
- 05 April 1998:
[Talks]
- Acrobat (PDF) versions of 12 talks posted.
- Only three transcripts prior to 1994 remain to be posted.
- 03 April 1998:
The I Ching and its yarrow stalk oracle
- And now for something completely old.
- 27 March 1998:
[Talks]
- Eight more talks have been posted from 1989 to 1992.
- 25 March 1998:
[Talks]
- Three more talks have been posted from 1989.
- 23 March 1998:
Interviews
- The first interview has been posted from 1987.
- 23 March 1998:
[Talks]
- Two more talks have been posted, from 1983 and 1989.
Winter, 1998
- 08 Mar 98:
Euclid's Constructions
- The drawings for the 48 planar constructions
of Euclid's Elements are finally done.
We have entered the text of the first few constructions,
and the drawings will soon follow. The project should be
complete before the summer.
- 07 Mar 98:
Ralph's schedule
- The list of travels for 1998 has been updated.
- 07 Mar 98:
Ralph's vita
- The list of articles has been updated.
- 01 Feb 98:
The Canon of Lespugue
- A new article has been posted.
- 18 Jan 98: Webographics
- Websites "Webology" and "Webometry" have
been moved from thales.vismath.org to www.webographics.com.
- 15 Jan 98: Byrne
- We have begun posting a complete copy of
Oliver Byrne's brilliant edition of the First
Six Books of Euclid, of 1847. This Victorian
masterpiece was among the finest editions
of all time, ranking with the Billingsley
of 1587.
- 14 Jan 98: Talks
[Talks]
- 17 of Ralph's transcribed lectures are being posted.
- 14 Jan 98: Interviews
- 3 of Ralph's transcribed interviews are being posted.
- 14 Jan 98: Schedule
- Ralph's Schedule of Travel has been updated.
- 13 Jan 98: Vita
- Many broken links have been repaired.
- 13 Jan 98: Articles
- 6 of Ralph's articles have been newly posted in HTML format.
- 12 Jan 98: Webometry
- This study of World Wide Web linkages
from the points of view of fractal
geometry, chaos theory, complex dynamics,
scientific visualization, neural nets,
and connectionism is now on the front burner.
- 12 Jan 98: Catas-Q-I
- The Visual Constructions of Euclid, Plane Geometry
- This part of the Euclid Project is nearing completion.
It will comprise a four-color book with a companion
CDROM, including about 1000 drawings and animations
of all 48 constructions of Euclid's plane geometry.
Summer 1997
- Happy 3rd Birthday, VMI Website!
- This site went online on May 11, 1994.
- Pythagorean Geometry
- We are now finishing our third pass through
Euclid's Elements, Books
I - VI.
- The first, an interactive website,
(CDROM-to-be),
VEE: The Visual Elements of Euclid
is finished.
- In the second, we extracted all of the constructions,
and put together the drawings into animated sequences,
The Construction Animations
- In this third pass, the constructions according to Euclid's
text are expanded by the addition of all details
of "subroutine calls", that is, references to earlier constructions.
These expanded constructions are reconstructions of
the geometry of the Pythagoreans, a century or more
before Euclid's time. They may actually represent the
geometrical knowldge of the ancient Egyptians. We call them
Catas-Q-I,
or the expanded constructions
of Euclid's plane geometry.
A
status table showing our progress is evolving.
-
Math 181, Spring 1997
- The major bifurcations of mathematical history.
- This UCSC course finished June 12, 1997.
-
Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems
- This book/cdrom/website package appeared, May, 1997.
-
VCE: The Visual Constructions of Euclid
- This is a new part of the Euclid Project
- It includes of a 12-step program for the avoidance
of math anxiety, and a stairway to the geometry of the
Pythagoreans.
-
Progress report, 11 July, 1997
- A brief update on our current status.
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