Brian Goodwin

Brian Goodwin (on the right).

Brian Carey Goodwin (1931 – 15 July 2009) was a Canadian mathematician and biologist.

He was Professor Emeritus at the Open University.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Biography

Brian Goodwin was born in Montreal, Canada in 1931. He studied biology at McGill University and then emigrated to the UK, under a Rhodes Scholarship for studying mathematics at Oxford. He got his PhD. at the University of Edinburgh. His first teaching job, in mathematics, was at Oxford University and then moved to Sussex University until 1983 when he became a full professor at the Open University in Milton Keynes until retirement in 1992. Thereafter, he taught at the Schumacher College in Devon, UK. Goodwin has also a research position at the MIT and was a long time visitor of several institutions including the UNAM in Mexico City. He was a founding member of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico where he also served as a external faculty for several years ^[1]

Brian Goodwin died in hospital in 2009, after surgery resulting from a fall from his bike.^[2]

1989. Theoretical Biology: Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order for Complex Systems with Peter Saunders, Edinburgh University Press, 1989, ISBN 0852246005
1994. Mechanical Engineering of the Cytoskeleton in Developmental Biology (International Review of Cytology), with Kwang W. Jeon and Richard J. Gordon, Academic Press, London 1994, ISBN 0123645530
1996. Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology, Cambridge Univ Press, 1996.
1997. How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity, Scribner, 1994, ISBN 0025447106 (German: Der Leopard, der seine Flecken verliert, Piper, München 1997, ISBN 3492038735)
2001. Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology, with Ricard V. Sole, Basic Books, 2001, ISBN 0465019277
2007. Nature's Due: Healing Our Fragmanted Culture, Floris Books, 2007, ISBN 0863155960

1997, "Temporal organization and disorganization in organisms". in: Chronobiology International 14 (5): 531-536 1997
2000, "The life of form. Emergent patterns of morphological transformation". in: Comptes rendud de la Academie des Science III 323 (1): 15-21 JAN 2000
Miramontes O, Solé RV, Goodwin BC (2001). Neural networks as sources of chaotic motor activity in ants and how complexity develops at the social scale. International Journal of bifurcation and chaos 11 (6): 1655-1664.
Goodwin BC (2000). The life of form. Emergent patterns of morphological transformation. Comptes rendus de l'academie des sciencies III - Sciences de la vie-life sciences 323 (1): 15-21
Goodwin BC. (1997) Temporal organization and disorganization in organisms. Chronobiology international 14 (5): 531-536
Solé, R., O. Miramontes y Goodwin BC. (1993)Collective Oscillations and Chaos in the Dynamics of Ant Societies. J. Theor. Biol. 161: 343
Miramontes, O., R. Solé y BC Goodwin (1993), Collective Behaviour of Random-Activated Mobile Cellular Automata. Physica D 63: 145-160

2002, "In the Shadow of Culture". in: "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century" Edited by John Brockman, Vintage Books, MAY 2002, ISBN 0-375-71342-5

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