The Geometry of Biological Time : Biomathematics ; v.8

Arthur T. Winfree

ISBN 10: 3540093737 / ISBN 13: 9783540093732

Published by Springer-Verlag, 1980

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Hbk, 530 p. Some foxing to edges o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Contents : 1. Circular Logic -- 2. Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic) -- 3. The Rules of the Ring -- 4. Ring Populations -- 5. Getting off the Ring -- 6. Attracting Cycles and Isochrons -- 7. Measuring the Trajectories of a Circadian Clock -- 8. Populations of Attractor Cycle Oscillators -- 9. Excitable Kinetics and Excitable Media -- 10. The Varieties of Phaseless Experience: In Which the Geometrical Orderliness of Rhythmic Organization Breaks Down in Diverse Ways -- 11. The Firefly Machine -- 12. Energy Metabolism in Cells -- 13. The Malonic Acid Reagent (â Sodium Geometrateâ ) -- 14. Electrical Rhythmicity and Excitability in Cell Membranes -- 15. The Aggregation of Slime Mold Amoebae -- 16. Growth and Regeneration -- 17. Arthropod Cuticle -- 18. Pattern Formation in the Fungi -- 19. Orcadian Rhythms in General -- 20. The Circadian Clocks of Insect Eclosion -- 21. The Flower of Kalanchoe -- 22. The Cell Mitotic Cycle -- 23. The Female Cycle [Biomathematics - Mathematical and Computational Biology - Biological rhythms Mathematics - Biological Clocks - Circadian Rhythm] w128 / m16639.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Geometry of Biological Time : Biomathematics ; v.8
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540093737
• ISBN 13: 9783540093732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This is an exhaustive account of the clocklike rhythms thatpervade the activities of living organisms and of the mathe-matical principles which dominate these mechanims. No theo-retical background is assumed: the required notions are in-troduced with copious pictures and examples.