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

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