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Author:

Rowe, Glenn (Glenn W.)

Title:

Theoretical models in biology : the origin of life, the immune system, and the brain / Glenn Rowe.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,
Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

xvi, 420 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Memory--Computer simulation.
Immunity--Computer simulation.
Life--Computer simulation.--Computer simulation.
Models, Biological
Brain.
Immunity.
Computer simulation.
Biogenesis
Mathematical models--Mathematical models

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-412) and index.

Contents:

Origin of life -- Molecular basis of life -- Molecular evolution and quasi-species -- Stochastic processes -- Spin glass model of the origin of life -- Origin of the genetic code -- Hypercycles -- Artificial life -- Immune system -- Bell's model -- Adaptive walks -- Maturation of the immune system -- Symmetric immune network model -- Shape space network model -- AIDS -- Brain -- Neurons and synapses -- Memory -- McCulloch-Pitts neural net -- Perceptrons -- Connectionism -- Attractor neural networks -- Unsupervised learning -- Evolutionary learning.
Differential equations -- Statistics primer -- Computer simulation.

Series:

Oxford science publications

ISBN:

9780198596875 (pbk.)
0198596871 (pbk.)
9780198596882
019859688X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)29313178

LCCN:

93040873

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)