Arthur T. Winfree (1942–2002)

✍ Scribed by John J. Tyson; Leon Glass

• Book ID: 104034460
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 230
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-5193
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.04.042

✦ Synopsis

In this issue, 12 essays to honor the life and achievements of Art Winfree, a friend and mentor to all of us, and father to one, are collected. The essays vary from personal reminiscences to opinionated reviews to original research articles. Some essays deal with problems derived directly from Art's own work; others with problems that surely would have captured his attention and critical scrutiny. In this introduction we summarize Art's scientific career and provide an extensive bibliography of his work. The essays that follow will touch over and over again on the themes that ran through Art's research-biological oscillators, synchronization, geometrical reasoning, phaseless points, and a creative and playful approach to science. All of us, in one way or another, owe a deep debt to Art Winfree for defining a generation of important, challenging, theory-rich problems and pointing the way to their resolution.