Author | Winfree, Arthur T. author |
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Title | The Geometry of Biological Time [electronic resource] / by Arthur T. Winfree |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1980 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22492-2 |
Descript | XIV, 530 p. online resource |
1. Circular Logic -- 2. Phase Singularities (Screwy Results of Circular Logic) -- 3. The Rules of the Ring -- 4. Ring Populations -- 5. Getting off the Ring -- 6. Attracting Cycles and Isochrons -- 7. Measuring the Trajectories of a Circadian Clock -- 8. Populations of Attractor Cycle Oscillators -- 9. Excitable Kinetics and Excitable Media -- 10. The Varieties of Phaseless Experience: In Which the Geometrical Orderliness of Rhythmic Organization Breaks Down in Diverse Ways -- 11. The Firefly Machine -- 12. Energy Metabolism in Cells -- 13. The Malonic Acid Reagent (โSodium Geometrateโ) -- 14. Electrical Rhythmicity and Excitability in Cell Membranes -- 15. The Aggregation of Slime Mold Amoebae -- 16. Growth and Regeneration -- 17. Arthropod Cuticle -- 18. Pattern Formation in the Fungi -- 19. Orcadian Rhythms in General -- 20. The Circadian Clocks of Insect Eclosion -- 21. The Flower of Kalanchoe -- 22. The Cell Mitotic Cycle -- 23. The Female Cycle -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects