Nicolas Rashevsky

Nicolas R. Rashevsky (Russian Н Рашевски; *. 8.jul / September 20 1899greg in Chernigov, Russian Empire, today Chernihiv, Ukraine, .. † January 16, 1972 in Holland (Michigan ), United States ) was a Russian- American Biomathematician.

Life

During the Russian Civil War Rashevsky joined the Navy of the White Army in 1917. After training in mathematical physics at the University of Kiev Rashevsky came to Constantinople Opel, Prague and Paris in 1924 in the United States.

At the University of Pittsburgh, he developed the idea of ​​Biomathematics, based on mathematical physics. Later he taught at the University of Chicago, where he in 1939, the scientific journal Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics founded (now Bulletin of Mathematical Biology) and 1947 offered the world's first doctoral program in biomathematics. It was a year later acquired by Anatol Rapoport, whose father was a doctor Rashevsky. Rashevsky researched also one of the first on the subject of artificial neural networks.

Works

  • Mathematical biophysics: physico- mathematical foundations of biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938.
  • Advances and applications of mathematical biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940.
  • Mathematical theory of human relations: an approach to mathematical biology of social phenomena. Bloomington, ID: Principia Press, 1947.
  • Mathematical biology of social behavior. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
  • Mathematical principles in biology and their applications. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1961.
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