Flash AMS — The Catastrophe Machine Doctor Zeeman's Original Catastrophe Machine Video illustrating Zeeman's Catastrophe Machine "The Cusp of Catastrophe: René Thom, Christopher Zeeman and Denis Postle" in Maps of the Mind Charles Hampden-Turner. Collier Books, 1981. Mathematics into pictures, Christopher Zeeman's 1978 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Zeeman building, University of Warwick 1925 births 2016 deaths English people of Danish descent Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge People educated at Christ's Hospital Royal Air Force officers Royal Air Force personnel of World War II 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians Academics of the University of Warwick Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin David Crighton medalists Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Harkness Fellows Principals of Hertford College, Oxford Professors of Gresham College Presidents of the London Mathematical Society Topologists Knights Bachelor