Levin S.A. (eds.) Frontiers in Mathematical Biology

B.: Springer, 1994. - 636 p.Volume 100, which is the final volume of the LNBM series serves to commemorate the acievements in two decades of this influential collection of books in mathematical biology. The contributions, by the leading mathematical biologists, survey the state of the art in the subject, and offer speculative, philosophical and critical analyses of the key issues confronting the field. The papers address fundamental issues in cell and molecular biology, organismal biology, evolutionary biology, population ecology, community and ecosystem ecology, and applied biology, plus the explicit and implicit mathematical challenges. Cross-cuttting issues involve the problem of variation among units in nonlinear systems, and the related problems of the interactions among phenomena across scales of space, time and organizational complexity.Reflections on Mathematical Contributions to Understanding the Molecular Basis of Life: From 1970 to the 21 st Century
Genomes, Maps and Sequences
Cell Protrusions
Cell Motion and OrientationPattern Formation in Tissue Interaction Models
Toward Artificial Competence
Norbert Wiener’s Brain Waves
Puzzles about Excitable Media and Sudden Death
Immune Networks and Immune ResponsesEvolution of Gene Families: A Clue to Some Problems of Neo-Darwinism
The Changing Role of Population Genetics Theory
Some Advantages and Disadvantages of Recombination
The Morphometric Synthesis: A Brief Intellectual History
Behavioral Ecology, Epidemiology and Population Genetics: The Undiscovered CountryStochastic Demography and Life Histories
On the Reciprocal Relationship Between Life Histories and Population Dynamics
Structured Population Dynamics
Modelling Social Animal Aggregations
Spatial Chaos and its Role in Ecology and EvolutionSpeculations on the Future of Food WebsLorenzo Camerano’s Contribution to Early Food Web Theory
On the Equilibrium of Living Beings by Means of Reciprocal Destruction
Frontiers in Ecosystem Science
Individual-Oriented Approaches to Modeling Ecological Populations and Communities
A Metaphysiological Approach to Modeling Ecological Populations and Communities
The Trophodynamics of Whole Ecological Communities
Modeling Contact Structures in BiologyConservation and Spatial Structure: Theoretical Approaches
A Thousand and One Epidemic Models
Uncertainty and Fisheries Management
Ecological Risk Assessment in Aquatic Populations and Communities: The Next GenerationHealth Information in Developing Countries
What Everyone Should Know About the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction
Avoiding Chaos
Model Building as an Inverse Problem in Biomathematics
Some Remarks on Estimation Techniques for Size-Structured Population Models