Author: Arthur T. Winfree
From cell division to heartbeat, clocklike rhythms pervade the activities of every living organism. The cycles of life are ultimately biochemical in mechanism but many of the principles that dominate their orchestration are essentially mathematical.The Geometry of Biological Time describes periodic processes in living systems and their non-living analogues in the abstract terms of
nonlinear dynamics. Enphasis is given in phase singularities, waves, and mutual synchronization in tissues composed of many clocklike units. Also provided are descriptions of the best-studied
experimental systems such as chemical oscillators, pacemaker neurons, circadian clocks, and excitable media organized into…
This 2nd edition of a 1980 book is about 50% enlarged. Its readers today will probably be scientists
two generations removed from those familiar with the first printing but this review stresses only…
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