Book Review: Introduction to Infinite Series

Book Review: “Introduction to Artificial Life”

Despite the popularity of artificial life over the last 15 years or so, as witnessed by the establishment of several international conferences on the subject and the birth of the Artificial Life Journal and similar publications, there has been a conspicuous lack of decent introductory texts on the subject. Notable exceptions include “Artificial Life: An Introduction” (Langton 1995), an eclectic...

Introduction to the Tumour Microenvironment Review Series

tumour cells that lead to life-threatening malignancy. These studies have provided a comprehensive understanding of the role of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes, as well as their associated signal transduction pathways, in cancer [1]. In recent years, it has become clear that a complete understanding of the many steps and processes that occur during cancer progression must include the resp...

Introduction to the Mini-Review Series

The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, recognizing the necessity to bridge the gap between the practicing physician and the medical scientist, has started a series of short reviews in areas of basic science. The series opened with Dr. Paul Lebowitz's article on oncogenes [Lebowitz J: Oncogenic genes and human malignancy. Yale J Biol Med 56:121-129, 1983]. The articles intend to introduce and...

Book Review Introduction to Concurrency in Programming Languages

Parallel programming is mainstream scientific programming. A desktop workstation can easily have hundreds of pipelines. An undergraduate course in, say, computational physics should introduce the student to parallel solutions. What issues arise in parallel programming that don’t arise in sequential programming? How are the issues treated? And what text to use to explain the differences? For bon...

Book Review: Populist Systems: A General Introduction