The Mathematical Structure of the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle: 69 (Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 69) - Softcover

The Mathematical Structure of the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Over the past three years I have grown accustomed to the puzzled look which appears on people's faces when they hear that I am a mathematician who studies sleep. They wonder, but are usually too polite to ask, what does mathematics have to do with sleep Instead they ask the questions that fascinate us all: Why do we have to sleep How much sleep do we really need Why do we dream These questions usually spark a lively discussion leading to the exchange of anecdotes, last night's dreams, and other personal information. But they are questions about the func tion of sleep and, interesting as they are, I shall have little more to say about them here. The questions that have concerned me deal instead with the timing of sleep. For those of us on a regular schedule, questions of timing may seem vacuous. We go to bed at night and get up in the morning, going through a cycle of sleeping and waking every 24 hours. Yet to a large extent, the cycle is imposed by the world around us. Artikel-Nr. 9783540171768

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