书目名称 | Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky |
副标题 | The Queer Duck of Bi |
编辑 | Maya M. Shmailov |
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概述 | Offers the first comprehensive and uncompromising biography of the hitherto unexplored life of Nicolas Rashevsky.Presents an exciting and critical discussion of Rashevsky’s intellectual profile and an |
丛书名称 | Science Networks. Historical Studies |
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描述 | .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-day biologists have never heard of Rashevsky. Why?” In what constitutes the first detailed biography of theoretical physicist Nicolas Rashevsky (1899-1972), spanning key aspects of his long scientific career, the book captures Rashevsky’s ways of thinking about the place mathematical biology should have in biology and his personal struggle for the acceptance of his views. It brings to light the tension between mathematicians, theoretical physicists and biologists when it comes to the introduction of physico-mathematical tools into biology. Rashevsky’s successes and failures in his efforts to establish mathematical biology as a subfield of biology provide an important test case for understanding the role of theory (in particular mathematics) in understanding the natural world..With the biological sciences moving towards new vistas of inter- and multi-disciplinary collaborations and resea |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | mathematical biology; outsiders; Nicolas Rashevsky; biomathematics; trading zones; theory versus experime |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39922-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-81997-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-39922-5Series ISSN 1421-6329 Series E-ISSN 2296-6080 |
issn_series | 1421-6329 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |