Winfree, Arthur

Steven Strogatz is the best teaclier 1 know. From his own course he has crystallized the perfect textbook for a first undergraduate course in nonlinear dynamics, covering both continuous and discrete processes plus fractals, with wonderfully seductive examples and problem sets. The book would also serve well for higher level courses. I would love to teach out of it." —Arthur T. Winfree, University of Arizona, and author of... 

Arthur T. Winfree. Scroll-shaped waves of chemical activity in three dimensions. Science, 7 937-939, 1973. 

Arthur Winfree, a biologist with an interest in spatial and temporal patterns, had attended the Prague conference and had decided to pursue the study of pattern formation in the BZ reaction. In 1972, the cover of Science magazine featured Winfree s photo of spiral wave patterns in the BZ reaction (Winfree, 1972). Figure 1.7 shows such patterns. Field and Noyes immediately saw how to understand the development of such patterns with the aid of the FKN mechanism, and they published an explanation the same year (Field and Noyes, 1972). 

The following reviewed individual chapters Arthur Winfree, Patrick De Kepper, Ken Kustin, Robert Olsen, Milos Dolnik, Albert Goldbeter, Dilip Kondepudi, Miklos Orban, Istvan Nagypal, Milos Marek, Kenneth Showalter, Steven Scott, Desederio Vasquez, and Vitaly Volpert. 

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