Ethan Akin

Professor

Main Affiliation

Mathematics

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鈥檚 guide to the general topology of dynamical systems." American Mathematical Society. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 1.

E. Akin. (1997) 鈥淩ecurrence in topological dynamics: Ellis and Furstenberg introduction.鈥

E. Akin. (1999) 鈥淚ntroduction to simple dynamical systems.鈥 

E. Akin. (n.d.) 鈥淭op dynamics survey.鈥

E. Akin. (1982) 鈥淐ycling in dynamics.鈥

E. Akin. (2004) 鈥淲hy three X is hard.鈥

E. Akin. (1992) 鈥淭he spiteful computer.鈥

E. Akin. (2013) 鈥淭he prisoners dilemma.鈥

E. Akin. (n.d.) 鈥淢indless rote.鈥

E. Akin. (n.d.) 鈥淭heses on Johnson.鈥