Brian Carey Goodwin is a recognized mathematician and a biologist born in Montreal, Canada. He studied at McGill University and then emigrated to the UK where he became full professor at the Open University until retirement in 1992. He is a key founder of a branch of mathematical biology known as theoretical biology that focuses on the methods of mathematics and physics to understand processes in biology. His expertise is in morphogenesis and evolution, where he has developed a critical evaluation of the role of natural selection. He is an advocate of a biology explained from the perspective of complex systems. Currently he teaches at the Schumacher College in Devon, UK. Goodwin has advocated a unification of science and the humanities. He is founding member of the prestigious Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico.

Books

• Temporal Organization in Cells
• Analytical Physiology
• How the Leopard Changed its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity
• Form and Transformation: Generative and Relational Principles in Biology
• Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology
• Towards a Theoretical Biology

Scientific papers

1. Miramontes O, Solé RV, Goodwin BC. 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 JUN 2001.
2. Goodwin BC. The life of form. Emergent patterns of morphological transformation. COMPTES RENDUS DE L ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES SERIE III-SCIENCES DE LA VIE-LIFE SCIENCES 323 (1): 15-21 JAN 2000
3. Goodwin BC. Temporal organization and disorganization in organisms. CHRONOBIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 14 (5): 531-536 1997
4. Berrill NJ, Goodwin BC. The life of form emergent patterns of morphological transformation. RIVISTA DI BIOLOGIA-BIOLOGY FORUM 89 (3): 373-388 SEP-DEC 1996
5. Solé, R., O. Miramontes and BC Goodwin. Collective Oscillations and Chaos in the Dynamics of Ant Societies. J. THEOR BIOL 161:343 (1993)
6. Miramontes, O., R. Solé and BC Goodwin, Collective Behaviour of Random-Activated Mobile Cellular Automata. PHYSICA D 63: 145-160 (1993)

External links

• A New Science of Qualities: a Talk With Brian Brian Goodwin
• An interview with Professor Brian Goodwin

Living people | Year of birth missing | Open University | Canadian biologists | Canadian mathematicians | 20th century mathematicians | 21st century mathematicians | Montrealers

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