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020 _a9789814612463 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 0 0 _aQC174.17.M35
_bN38 2014
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245 0 0 _aNature's longest threads :
_bnew frontiers in the mathematics and physics of information in biology /
_ceditors Janaki Balakrishnan, B.V. Sreekantan, National Institute of Advanced Studies, IISc Campus, Bangalore, India.
264 1 _aNew Jersey :
_bWorld Scientific,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _axi, 194 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aMathematics in-forms physics and physics per-forms mathematics : comments / N. Kumar -- An incomplete summing up of quantum measurements / N.D. Hari Dass -- Predictive information for quantum bio-systems / Arun Kumar Pati -- Quantum effects in biological systems / Sisir Roy -- Instabilities in sensory processes / J. Balakrishnan -- Active cellular mechanics and information processing in the living cell / Madan Rao -- On the importance of length scales in determining the physics of biological systems / B. Ashok -- q-deformations and the dynamics of the larch bud-moth population cycles / Sudharsana V. Iyengar and J. Balakrishnan -- Newtonian chimpanzees? : a molecular dynamics approach to understanding decision-making by wild chimpanzees / Matthew Westley, Surajit Sen and Anindya Sinha -- Quantum probability : a new direction for modeling in cognitive science / Sisir Roy -- Knowledge, its hierarchy and its direction / Apoorva Patel -- Some remarks on numbers and their cognition / P.P. Divakaran -- Conceptual revolution of the 20th century leading to one grand unified concept : the quantum vacuum / B.V. Sreekantan -- Classical coherence, life and consciousness / Partha Ghose -- Consciousness : a verifiable prediction / N. Panchapakesan -- Gödel, Tarski, Turing and the conundrum of free will / Chetan S. Mandayam Nayakar and R. Srikanth -- Mathematics and cognition / Rajesh Kasturirangan.
650 0 _aQuantum theory
_xMathematics.
650 0 _aBiological systems
_xMeasurement.
650 0 _aInformation theory in biology.
700 1 _aBalakrishnan, Janaki,
_eeditor of compilation.
700 1 _aSreekantan, B. V.
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