Ethan Akin
Professor
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Topological Dynamics
- Population Genetics
Building
Marshak Building
Office
MR 325A
Fax
212-650-5136
Ethan Akin
Profile
Back when dinosaurs roamed Manhattan, I was an undergraduate at City College, taking classes with Jesse Douglas, among others, and graduating in 1965. After my PhD at Princeton (1969), I taught at University of California, Berkeley from Fall, 1968 through Spring, 1970. In the Fall of 1970 I returned to City College where I have been teaching ever since, aging slightly.
Education
1965 CUNY City College of New York - B.A. Mathematics
1969 Princeton University - Ph.D. Mathematics
Research Interests
I work in the topological part of dynamical systems theory. Below I have posted pdf files of some introductory material describing two books, "The General Topology of Dynamical Systems" (1993) and "Recurrence in Topological Dynamics: Furstenberg Families and Ellis Actions" (1997) as well as two monographs "Simplicial Dynamical Systems" (1999) and "Dynamics of Topologically Generic Homeomorphisms" (2003). The survey of topological dynamics is my - rather idiosyncratic - view of the subject. It is in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (2009).
My work in population genetics is represented by an old paper: "Cycling in Simple Genetic Systems" (1982).
Publications
E. Akin. (1993) "A tourist’s guide to the general topology of dynamical systems." American Mathematical Society. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 1. Link.
E. Akin. (1997) “Recurrence in topological dynamics: Ellis and Furstenberg introduction.”
E. Akin. (1999) “Introduction to simple dynamical systems.”
E. Akin. (n.d.) “Top dynamics survey.”
E. Akin. (1982) “Cycling in dynamics.”
E. Akin. (2004) “Why three X is hard.”
E. Akin. (1992) “The spiteful computer.”
E. Akin. (2013) “The prisoners dilemma.”
E. Akin. (n.d.) “Mindless rote.”
E. Akin. (n.d.) “Theses on Johnson.”