FRACTAL PHYSIOLOGY AND CHAOS IN MEDICINE (2ND EDITION) by Bruce J West
This exceptional book is concerned with the application of fractals and chaos, as well as other concepts from nonlinear dynamics to biomedical phenomena. Herein we seek to communicate the excitement being experienced by scientists upon making application of these concepts within the life sciences. Mathematical concepts are introduced using biomedical data sets and the phenomena being explained take precedence over the mathematics.In this new edition what has withstood the test of time has been updated and modernized; speculations that were not borne out have been expunged and the breakthroughs that have occurred in the intervening years are emphasized. The book provides a comprehensive overview of a nascent theory of medicine, including a new chapter on the theory of complex networks as they pertain to medicine.
Dr. Bruce J. West has been an active research scientist in industry, a university professor and department chair of physics, and he is presently a chief scientist in mathematics for the Army. Dr. West's career spans 30 years and he has over 310 research publications. Dr. West is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an Army Research Laboratory Fellow, and he has won numerous awards for outstanding research. His research specialization has been the application of nonlinear dynamics systems theory to a variety of physical and biomedical phenomena. His research has addressed general questions about what we can and cannot know about dynamical complex adaptive systems.
Dr. Lori Griffin holds a National Research Council Fellowship at Duke University. Her research focuses on human locomotion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789814417792 |
| ISBN 10 | 9814417793 |
| Title | FRACTAL PHYSIOLOGY AND CHAOS IN MEDICINE (2ND EDITION) |
| Author | Bruce J West |
| Series | Studies Of Nonlinear Phenomena In Life Science |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-01-15 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
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