Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky

Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky’s unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his family, students and friends, as well as discussions with biologists and mathematical biologists, to flesh out and complete the picture.

“Most modern-day biologists have never heard of Rashevsky. Why?” In what constitutes the first detailed biography ...