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Hip Santa Cruz and Ralph Abraham

Hip Santa Cruz and Ralph Abraham

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UCSC Emeritus and Math Professor from 1968 until his retirement in 2020. You can find many youtube videos of Ralph Abraham in conversation with luniminaries such Terrance McKenna, Rupert Sheldridge in the movie, DMT: The Spirit Molecule is a 2010 documentary.


Professor Abraham came to UCSC in 1968 after a distinguished academic career beginning with earning his Bachelors and Masters of Science and Ph.D. (1960) from the University of Michigan. In Mathematics. Before coming to UCSC, he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University and Princeton University as assistant professor of mathematics. He has also held visiting positions in Amsterdam, Paris, Warwick, Barcelona, Basel, and Florence. His time at Princeton University was very influential with the introduction of psychedelics, mathematics, leading to chaos theory. He founded the Visual Math Institute at Santa Cruz in 1975; at that time, it was called the "Visual Mathematics Project". You can find information about all the work Ralph has been doing at www.ralph-abraham.org



Tonight we will be talking about his newest books volumes #5, #6 of Hip Santa Cruz. Edited by T. Mike Walker with the assistance of Ralph H. Abraham.


Hip Santa Cruz 6. First-person accounts of the Hip Culture

of Santa Cruz, California in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.


Calling All Hippies!


Readings from Hip Santa Cruz #6

3-5PM, Saturday, April 8th at

Santa Cruz Art League

526 Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA


the start of Rock & Roll in the 60's to the Cabrillo College Tipi, Organic Gardens, the beginning of Shakespeare in the Park, and a deep look into Huey P. Newton's UCSC Dissertation, this issue is filled with unexpected miracles and mind blowing truths. Read at your own risk!


Available through Amazon.com or locally at Bookshop Santa Cruz.


Come listen to the writers present enticing fragments of juicy prose from their work!

FREE for the public. All welcome.



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