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Mathematical Problems in the Biological Sciences
About this Title
R. E. Bellman, Editor
Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics
Publication Year:
1962; Volume 14
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1314-0 (print); 978-0-8218-9229-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/psapm/014
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Articles
- H. D. Landahl – Mathematical models in the behavior of the central nervous system
- Edward F. Moore – Machines models of self-reproduction
- Marvin L. Minsky – Problems of formulation for artificial intelligence
- Paul C. Zamecnik – History and speculation on protein synthesis
- M. Delbrück and F. Brock Fuller – Knotting problems in biology with an appendex entitled “A measure of entanglement”
- Arthur B. Pardee – Biochemistry: Sterile or virgin for mathematicians?
- N. Shapiro – Chemical reaction occurring with migration
- S. W. Golomb – Efficient coding for the desoxyribonucleic channel
- Walter Goad – A study of Lerman’s model for diffusion and capture of excitons in DNA
- Max A. Woodbury and Lee D. Cady, Jr. – The mathematics of pattern recognition for the electrocardiogram
- Robert S. Ledley and Lee B. Lusted – Medical diagnosis and modern decision making
- John A. Jacquez – Some mathematical problems in physiology: Statistical ensembles
- Robert Kalaba – Mathematical aspects of adaptive control
- Irwin W. Sizer – Enzymology and kinetics
- Alexander Rich – An introduction to intra-cellular information transfer
- Stanislaw Ulam – On some mathematical problems connected with patterns of growth in figures
- Richard Bellman – From chemotherapy to computers to trajectories
- Donald F. Petersen – The growth of monodisperse populations of mammalian cells exposed to internal beta irradiation