My undergraduate and graduate education were at the University of New South Wales (Australia) from 1959-1966, in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. For my dissertation I completed what was then a large scale numerical problem related to the structure of light nuclei. What required several hundred hours of time on $1,000,000 worth of computing equipment in 1965 could now be done in a few minutes on my notebook! Programming would be simpler too with memory costing less than $500,000 per megabyte!

Since completing my degrees (certainly not my education!) I have held mainly University positions, and have worked on problems in various fields from plasma physics to the design of turbine blades to the statistical mechanics of lattice systems to developing numerical methods.

I have lived in Canberra (Austalia's National Capital) since 1970, in which time I have had three different positions at the Australian National University, as well as a number of visiting positions in other countries.

Obviously I also have an enduring interest in non-linear dynamics and the sciences of chaos and fractals with which they are intertwined. Combining the teaching of these subjects with my experience in computation lead quite naturally to the present project which integrates a text with easy-to-use software with which to try out the various ideas in a visual environment.

These pages are hosted by Mathematical Sciences Institute, ANU, and maintained by Brian Davies .

e-mail to Brian.Davies@anu.edu.au
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