Books by Ralph H. Abraham

RHA is the author of 12 books, with translations in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Czech. Seven are currently in print, and one is about to be published. This is the comprehensive list of English editions. The active titles are linked to the publisher.

Ebooks

Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems from Amazon

Foundations of Mechanics, free, from the Caltech Library

Chaos, Gaia, Eros, from Amazon

Transversal Manifolds and Flows, from Amazon

Books

The Foundations of Mechanics, 1967, 1978.

With Jerrold E. Marsden.

First edition 1967 by Benjamin Press.

Second edition 1978 by Addison-Wesley now online at: Cal Tech

and recently reprinted by the American Mathematical Society

Transversal Mappings and Flows, 1967.

With Joel Robbin. Publ. 1967 by Benjamin Press, now out of print.

Inexpensive reproduction avail. from Ralph.

Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 1967.

Publ. 1967 by Benjamin Press, now out of print.

Inexpensive reproduction avail. from Aerial Press.

Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications, 1983, 1988.

with Jerrold E. Marsden and Tudor Ratiu.

First edition, 1983, by Addison Wesley.

Second edition, 1988, by Springer-Verlag.

Dynamics, the Geometry of Behavior, 1982-1988, 1992.

With Chris Shaw.

First edn. 1982-1988, in 4 parts, by Aerial Press. Out-of-print. Transl. in Japanese.

Second edn., 1992, revised and improved, also in four colors, from Addison-Wesley, out-of-print.

Third edn., spiral-bound and monochrome, avail. from Aerial Press.

Fourth edn., eBook, new setting, CDROM available from Aerial Press.

Trialogues at the Edge of the West, 1992.

With Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake.

Transl. in French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish.

First Engl. edn. out of print. 2nd edn w/ new title in print:

Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness, 2001.

Chaos, Gaia, Eros, 1994.

Understanding the Chaos Revolution in a 12,000 year context.

Out of print. Transl. in Korean.

The Web Empowerment Book, 1995.

How to get started on the WWW, written with Frank Jas and the late Will Russell.

Out-of-print. Transl. in Chinese.

Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems, 1997.

Book/CDROM, with Laura Gardini and Christian Mira.

Introduction and visual account of a new frontier of chaos theory in two dimensions.

The Evolutionary Mind: Trialogues at the Edge of the Unthinkable, May 1998

A second volume of trialogues, with Terence McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake

German translation publ. Feb. 1998

Read a review by David Jay Brown here, 8 KB.

Another review here

Another review here PDF, 500 KB

The Chaos Avant-garde, 2000.

Memories of the Early Days of Chaos Theory.

Edited by Ralph Abraham and Yoshisuke Ueda.

Contributions by Steve Smale, Yoshisuke Ueda, Ralph Abraham, Edward Lorenz

Christian Mira, Floris Takens, T.Y. Li, James Yorke, and Otto Roessler

Transl. in Japanese.

Bolts from the Blue, 2005.

Six episodes from the history of mathematics.

In press, to appear March, 2005.