Download or read book Peregrinations from Physics to Phylogeny written by Kok Khoo Phua and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' "Professor Hao Bailin is one of China''s most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists. He has made important contributions to a wide variety of research fields, including biology in which he pioneered a multidimensional method for studying the evolutionary pathways of bacteria. Indeed he calls himself, appreciatively I believe, a guerrilla fighter." Nobel Laureate, Chen-Ning Yang Contents: C N Yang on Hao Bailin, 2015 (Chen-Ning Yang)Skeleton Graph Expansion of Critical Exponents in "Cultural Revolution" Years (Hao Bailin)The Virial Expansion Re-visited: A New Interpretation (Fa-Yueh Wu and Ron Aaron)Chaos in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction (Richard J Field)Discrete Resonances (Franco Vivaldi)Exact Solution of the Planar Motion of Three Arbitrary Point Vortices (Robert Conte and Laurent de Seze)A Cognitive Network for Oracle-Bone Characters Related to Animals (Andreas Dress, Stefan Grünewald and Zhenbing Zeng)Periodic Oscillations of the Forced Brusselator (Jason A C Gallas)Genomes: At the Edge of Chaos with Maximum Information Capacity (Sing-Guan Kong, Hong-Da Chen, Andrew Torda, and H C Lee)Low Temperature Glassy Systems: Present Understanding, Open Problems and Future Developments (Giorgio Parisi)CVTrees Support the Bergey''s Systematics and Provide High Resolution at Species Levels and Below (Bailin Hao)My Days as a Student of Prof. Hao (1982–1986) (Mingzhou Ding)Teacher and Friend (Yong-Shi Wu) Readership: This book is suitable for students of physics and mathematics and all members of the general public interested in science. Keywords:Hao Bailin;Virial Expansion;Chaos;Complex Systems;Glassy Systems'