LEADER 05202nam 22006495 450 001 9910254094603321 005 20200630083101.0 010 $a3-319-39922-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-39922-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000837584 035 $a(EBL)4660877 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-39922-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4660877 035 $a(PPN)194804801 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000837584 100 $a20160829d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIntellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky $b[electronic resource] $eThe Queer Duck of Biology /$fby Maya M. Shmailov 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Birkhäuser,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (219 p.) 225 1 $aScience Networks. Historical Studies,$x1421-6329 ;$v55 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-39921-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aPreface -- 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. 330 $aWho was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky?s unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his family, students and friends, as well as discussions with biologists and mathematical biologists, to flesh out and complete the picture. ?Most modern-day biologists have never heard of Rashevsky. Why?? In what constitutes the first detailed biography of theoretical physicist Nicolas Rashevsky (1899-1972), spanning key aspects of his long scientific career, the book captures Rashevsky?s ways of thinking about the place mathematical biology should have in biology and his personal struggle for the acceptance of his views. It brings to light the tension between mathematicians, theoretical physicists and biologists when it comes to the introduction of physico-mathematical tools into biology. Rashevsky?s successes and failures in his efforts to establish mathematical biology as a subfield of biology provide an important test case for understanding the role of theory (in particular mathematics) in understanding the natural world. With the biological sciences moving towards new vistas of inter- and multi-disciplinary collaborations and research programs, the book will appeal to a wide readership ranging from historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture to students and general readers with an interest in the history of the life sciences, mathematical biology and the social construction of science. 410 0$aScience Networks. Historical Studies,$x1421-6329 ;$v55 606 $aMathematics 606 $aHistory 606 $aBiology?History 606 $aBiomathematics 606 $aHistory of Mathematical Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M23009 606 $aHistory of Biology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L31000 606 $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aMathematical and Computational Biology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M31000 615 0$aMathematics. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aBiology?History. 615 0$aBiomathematics. 615 14$aHistory of Mathematical Sciences. 615 24$aHistory of Biology. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aMathematical and Computational Biology. 676 $a510 700 $aShmailov$b Maya M$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0755943 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254094603321 996 $aIntellectual pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky$91523399 997 $aUNINA