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Geometry of Biological Time deals with dynamics of processes that repeat themselves regularly. Such rhythmic return through a cycle of change is an ubiquitous principle of organization in living systems. In this revised and updated edition the author plans to extend the thread from 1980 to the prese...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winfree, Arthur T.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Interdisciplinary applied mathematics ; 12.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Global analysis (Mathematics)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Growth and Regeneration
  • Arthropod Circle
  • 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.