Sam Patterson

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus

Carleton College

 

 

Differentiable Dynamical Systems, especially homoclinic phenomena in three and higher dimensions

Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Neuroscience, Mathematical Models of Honey Bee Colonies

 

Mathematical Ancestry:

Patterson < Newhouse < Smale < Bott < Duffin < Bourgin < Birkhoff < E.H. Moore < H.A. Newton < Chasles < Poisson < Lagrange < Euler < Bernoulli (2) < Leibniz

Family Ancestry (one of 16,384 branches):

Patterson (2) < Worthington < Dew (2) < Wallace (6) < Campbell < Drummond < Stewart < James IV of Scotland

 

 

 


Sam Patterson,
Department of Mathematics,
Carleton College,
Northfield, MN 55057
spatters@carleton.edu