Ebook: The Mathematical Structure of the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle
Author: Steven H. Strogatz (auth.)
- Tags: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Statistics for Life Sciences Medicine Health Sciences
- Series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics 69
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Over the past three years I have grown accustomed to the puzzled look which appears on people's faces when they hear that I am a mathematician who studies sleep. They wonder, but are usually too polite to ask, what does mathematics have to do with sleep? Instead they ask the questions that fascinate us all: Why do we have to sleep? How much sleep do we really need? Why do we dream? These questions usually spark a lively discussion leading to the exchange of anecdotes, last night's dreams, and other personal information. But they are questions about the func tion of sleep and, interesting as they are, I shall have little more to say about them here. The questions that have concerned me deal instead with the timing of sleep. For those of us on a regular schedule, questions of timing may seem vacuous. We go to bed at night and get up in the morning, going through a cycle of sleeping and waking every 24 hours. Yet to a large extent, the cycle is imposed by the world around us.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Experimental Background....Pages 5-10
Data Bank....Pages 11-69
Patterns....Pages 70-127
Theoretical Background....Pages 128-147
Analysis of Models....Pages 148-182
Simulations....Pages 183-207
Epilogue....Pages 208-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-243
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Experimental Background....Pages 5-10
Data Bank....Pages 11-69
Patterns....Pages 70-127
Theoretical Background....Pages 128-147
Analysis of Models....Pages 148-182
Simulations....Pages 183-207
Epilogue....Pages 208-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-243
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