Mathematical Biophysics
There has recently been another approach to the problem: How does a brain think? A group of men, many of them in and near Chicago, have been saying: “We know the properties of nerves, nerve impulses, and simple nerve networks. We know the activity of the brain. What mathematical model of nerve networks is necessary to account for the activity of the brain?” These men have used mathematics, statistics, and mathematical logic in the effort to attack this problem, and they support a Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics.
Householder, Alston S., A Neural Mechanism for Discrimination, Psychometrika, vol. 4, no. 1, Dec. 1939, pp. 45-58.
Householder, Alston S., and Herbert D. Landahl, Mathematical Biophysics of the Central Nervous System, Bloomington, Ind.: Principia Press, 1945.
Landahl, Herbert D., Contributions to the Mathematical Biophysics of the Central Nervous System, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1939, pp. 95-118.
Landahl, Herbert D., Warren S. McCulloch, and Walter Pitts, A Statistical Consequence of the Logical Calculus of Nervous Nets, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 5, no. 4, Dec. 1943, pp. 135-137.
Landahl, Herbert D., A Note on the Mathematical Biophysics of Central Excitation and Inhibition, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 7, no. 4, Dec. 1945, pp. 219-221.
Lettvin, Jerome Y., and Walter Pitts, A Mathematical Theory of the Affective Psychoses, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 5, no. 4, Dec. 1943, pp. 139-148.
McCulloch, Warren S., and Walter Pitts, A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 5, no. 4, Dec. 1943, pp. 115-133.
Rashevsky, N., Mathematical Biophysics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Revised edition, 1948, 669 pp.
Rashevsky, N., Mathematical Biophysics of Abstraction and Logical Thinking, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 7, no. 3, Sept. 1945, pp. 133-148.
Rashevsky, N., Some Remarks on the Boolean Algebra of Nervous Nets in Mathematical Biophysics, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 7, no. 4, Dec. 1945, pp. 203-211.
Rashevsky, N., A Suggestion for Another Statistical Interpretation of the Fundamental Equations of the Mathematical Biophysics of the Central Nervous System, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 7, no. 4, Dec. 1945, pp. 223-226.
Rashevsky, N., The Neural Mechanism of Logical Thinking, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, vol. 8, no. 1, Mar. 1946, pp. 29-40.