Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky: The Queer Duck of Biology

by Shmailov, Maya M.
ISBN: 9783319399218
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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.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Shmailov, Maya M.
  • ISBN: 9783319399218
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 0.56
  • Number Of Pages: 199
  • Publication Year: 2016
Language: English