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Nicolas Rashevsky: Mathematical Biophysicist

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Nicolas Rashevsky was a pioneer in applying mathematics to biology. He is perhaps best known for his creation of neural net models and his applications of these models to a wide variety of problems in physiology and psychology.

His journal, the Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics (renamed Bulletin of Mathematical Biology), and his two volume tome, Mathematical Biophysics [1], inspired others to use mathematical models in biology.

Here we give a brief description of Rashevsky’s career and discuss his lasting (or not so lasting) influence.

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  1. Computer Science, Kelley Engineering Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA

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    Franz Pichler

  3. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

    Alexis Quesada-Arencibia

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Cull, P. (2018). Nicolas Rashevsky: Mathematical Biophysicist. In: Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2017. EUROCAST 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10671. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74718-7_5

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