The mathematical structure of the human sleep wake cycle. Lecture notes in biomathematics; 69.

Strogatz, Steven:

ISBN 10: 3540171762 / ISBN 13: 9783540171768

Verlag: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1986

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Titel: The mathematical structure of the human ...

Verlag: Berlin, Springer-Verlag

Erscheinungsdatum: 1986

Einband: Softcover

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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.