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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 1567370
Full text of review: PDF   This review is available free of charge.
Book Information:

Author: Arthur T. Winfree
Title: The geometry of biological time
Additional book information: Biomathematics, vol. 8, Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg and Berlin, 1980, xiii + 530 pp., $32.00.

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Jürgen Aschoff (ed. ) [1981], Biological rhythms, Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, vol. 4, Plenum, New York.

John A. Behnke, C. E. Finch and G. B. Moment [1978], The biology of aging, Plenum, New York.

Harold F. Blum [1968], Time's arrow and evolution, 3rd ed., Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Elmer S. Krudy, B. Bacon and R. Turner (eds. ) [1976], Time: A bibliography, Information Retrieval, London and Washington.

Pierre Lecomte du Noüy [1937], Biological time, Macmillan, New York.

  • Gerald James Whitrow, The natural philosophy of time, 2nd ed., The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York, 1980. MR 579644

  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Joel E. Cohen
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 (1982), 280-283
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15036-4