| Nonlinear Excitations in Biomolecules: Les Houches School, May 30 to June 4, 1994 Contributor(s): Peyrard, Michel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540592504 ISBN-13: 9783540592501 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Biophysics - Science | Physics - Atomic & Molecular - Science | Physics - Nuclear |
| Dewey: 574.191 |
| LCCN: 95224477 |
| Series: Centre de Physique Des Houches |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.55 lbs) 427 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the last few years, hopes have emerged that simple concepts could perhaps explain the extremely complicated biomolecular processes which are known to a greater and greater accuracy thanks to the extraordinary progress of biology. In parallel, powerful methods in physics, especially nonlinearity and cooperative effects, have been developed. They apply especially to biological phenomena and can explain coherent excitations with remarkable properties. This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the theory of nonlinear excitations and solitons in a biological environment, and also to the structure and function of biomolecules as well as energy and charge transport in biophysics. |
