Geometry of Biological Time

Name: Geometry of Biological Time
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ISBN: 9780387989921

ISBN-10: 0387989927

ISBN-13: 9780387989921

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Arthur T. Winfree

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From cell division to heartbeat, clocklike rhythms pervade the activities of every living organism. The cycles of life are ultimately biochemical in mechanism but many of the principles that dominate their orchestration are essentially mathematical.The Geometry of Biological Time describes periodic processes in living systems and their non-living analogues in the abstract terms of nonlinear dynamics. Enphasis is given in phase singularities, waves, and mutual synchronization in tissues composed of many clocklike units. Also provided are descriptions of the best-studied experimental systems such as chemical oscillators, pacemaker neurons, circadian clocks, and excitable media organized into…

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List price: $109.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 6/8/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 779
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 8.448



1980 Preface


1999 Preface


1999 Acknowledgements


Introduction



Circular Logic



Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic)



The Rules of the Ring



Ring Populations



Getting Off the Ring



Attracting Cycles and Isochrons



Measuring the Trajectories of a Circadian Clock



Populations of Attractor Cycle Oscillators



Excitable Kinetics and Excitable Media



The Varieties of Phaseless Experience: In Which the Geometrical Orderliness of Rhythmic Organization Breaks Down in Diverse Ways



The Firefly Machine



Energy Metabolism in Cells



The Malonic Acid Reagent ("Sodium Geometrate")



Electrical Rhythmicity and Excitability in Cell Membranes



The Aggregation of Slime Mold Amoebae



Numerical Organizing Centers



Electrical Singular Filaments in the Heart Wall



Pattern Formation in the Fungi



Circadian Rhythms in General



The Circadian Clocks of Insect Eclosion



The Flower of Kalanchoe



The Cell Mitotic Cycle



The Female Cycle


References


Index of Names


Index of Subjects