Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky The Queer Duck of Biology /
Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky’s unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his family, students and friends, as well as discussions with biologists and mathematical biologists, to flesh out and complete the picture. “Most modern-...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | Science Networks. Historical Studies,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39922-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter I: An Overview: Rashevsky's Mathematical Biology
- A Brief Sketch of Rashevsky's Life
- Crossing Boundaries: When Interest Crystallizes
- Rashevsky's Mathematical Biologist
- 1st Arc of Intellectual Trajectory
- An Outsider's Sad Lot
- Chapter II: Chicago Experiments in Mathematical Biology
- In Search of a "Queer Duck"
- A Forward-Looking Policy in the Division of Biological Sciences
- The Scientific Pathfinder
- An Experiment in Scientific Procedure: the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
- The Queer Ducks: The University of Chicago Group of Mathematical Biologists
- Chapter III: Scientific Experiment: Attempts to Converse across Disciplinary Boundaries Using the Method of Approximation
- Cell division and cellular aggregates
- Growing up and Making a Name
- Making "an Honest Woman" of Mathematical Biology
- Chapter IV: Breaking through the Iron Curtain
- In search of the Holy Grail: Discovering Form and Relations in Biology
- Betting on a Dark Horse
- A New Reign in Chicago
- Towards the Golden Years
- Chapter V: How Experiments End: The Drama at Chicago
- Pawns on a Chess Board
- "Mustard Plaster"
- The End
- Trotsky of Mathematical Biology
- Last of the Mohicans
- Conclusions
- Bibliography.