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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9783319819976
  • ISBN-10: 3319819976
  • Publisher: Birkhauser
  • Publish Date: April 2018
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.47 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 199

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