The relevance of physical and mathematical modes of thought on complex systems behavior in biological systems

✍ Scribed by Alessandro Giuliani; Joseph P. Zbilut

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 50 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1076-2787
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0526(199805/06)3:5<23::aid-cplx4>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

He received his doctorate at the University of Rome in 1982, specializing in molecular genetics and multivariate data analysis. Since then his research has focused on the quantitative description of diverse biological phenomena, ranging from physiology to molecular dynamics. Joseph P. Zbilut is with the Molecular Biophysics and Physiology Department of Rush Medical College in Chicago. He did some of the early human heart rate variability studies using correlation dimensions in the 1980s. Although cardiac studies using animal models suggested chaotic dynamics, questions regarding disparities between model and reality led him to consider alternate formulations and resulted in a theory of non-Lipschitz chaos. This culminated in his From Instability to Intelligence: Complexity and Predictability in Nonlinear Dynamics, 1997.