{"product_id":"9780982644157","title":"Demystifying The Akasha","description":"Duality, including the spiritual\/material and mind\/body dichotomies, has been the basis of the Western paradigm for four hundred years, and has been blamed for major world problems.\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, in the East, nonduality has prevailed. While science is generally seen in opposition to nonduality, this book sets out to prove the compatibility of the scientifi c outlook and the spiritual nonduality of India by constructing a mathematical model of cosmic consciousness. The ideas and their history are presented non technically in Part One,\u003cbr\u003ewhile the full mathematical details are presented in Part Two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalph Abraham is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, one of the pioneers of chaos theory. He is the author or coauthor of several math texts, including \"Foundations of Mechanics, Dynamics the Geometry of Behavior\", and \"Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems.\" He has also written books on the history of math,\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy, and the arts, such as \"Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness\" and \"The Evolutionary Mind.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSisir Roy is Professor of Theoretical Physics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His field of interest covers foundations of quantum mechanics, cosmology, functional geometry and brain function. He has published more than\u003cbr\u003e100 papers in peer reviewed international journals and nine research and edited monographs by Kluwer Academic,World Scientifi c etc. publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epigraph Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49813770895600,"sku":"9780982644157","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982644157","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}