Bibliographical Notices Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure; or the Treatment of Lateral Curvature of the Spine; Paralysis, Indigestion, Constipation, Consumption; Angular Curvatures, and other Deformities; Diseases incident to Women, Derangements of the Nervous System, and other Chronic Affections, by the Swedish System of Localized Movements . By Charles Fayette Taylor, M.D. With 71 Illustrations. 12mo. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. 1861.

1861 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 187-188
1952 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 412

How does the human brain and nervous system acquire its store of mathematical knowledge? How does the human organism use this store of knowledge once it has acquired it? How can teachers direct the behavioral growth of their students so that they acquire and use mathematical knowledge? These are the fundamental questions to which the answers can be of great aid in the improvement of instruction in mathematics. Although very little is known about the answers to how we learn, the little that is known should be studied by every teacher of mathematics on every level of instruction from kindergarten through college. This yearbook has been written to provide some of this information, and to indicate how it may be put into effect by the classroom teacher.


Author(s):  
Emilio Del-Moral-Hernandez

Artificial Neural Networks have proven, along the last four decades, to be an important tool for modelling of the functional structures of the nervous system, as well as for the modelling of non-linear and adaptive systems in general, both biological and non biological (Haykin, 1999). They also became a powerful biologically inspired general computing framework, particularly important for solving non-linear problems with reduced formalization and structure. At the same time, methods from the area of complex systems and non-linear dynamics have shown to be useful in the understanding of phenomena in brain activity and nervous system activity in general (Freeman, 1992; Kelso, 1995). Joining these two areas, the development of artificial neural networks employing rich dynamics is a growing subject in both arenas, theory and practice. In particular, model neurons with rich bifurcation and chaotic dynamics have been developed in recent decades, for the modelling of complex phenomena in biology as well as for the application in neuro-like computing. Some models that deserve attention in this context are those developed by Kazuyuki Aihara (1990), Nagumo and Sato (1972), Walter Freeman (1992), K. Kaneko (2001), and Nabil Farhat (1994), among others. The following topics develop the subject of Chaotic Neural Networks, presenting several of the important models of this class and briefly discussing associated tools of analysis and typical target applications.


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