Preface
Introduction
Chapter I: An Overview: Rashevsky's Mathematical Biology
A Brief Sketch of Rashevsky's Life
Crossing Boundaries: When Interest Crystallizes
Rashevsky's Mathematical Biologist
1st Arc of Intellectual Trajectory
An Outsider's Sad Lot
Chapter II: Chicago Experiments in Mathematical Biology
In Search of a "Queer Duck"
A Forward-Looking Policy in the Division of Biological Sciences
The Scientific Pathfinder
An Experiment in Scientific Procedure: the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
The Queer Ducks: The University of Chicago Group of Mathematical Biologists
Chapter III: Scientific Experiment: Attempts to Converse across Disciplinary Boundaries Using the Method of Approximation
Cell division and cellular aggregates
Growing up and Making a Name
Making "an Honest Woman" of Mathematical Biology
Chapter IV: Breaking through the Iron Curtain
In search of the Holy Grail: Discovering Form and Relations in Biology
Betting on a Dark Horse
A New Reign in Chicago
Towards the Golden Years
Chapter V: How Experiments End: The Drama at Chicago
Pawns on a Chess Board
"Mustard Plaster"
The End
Trotsky of Mathematical Biology
Last of the Mohicans
Conclusions
Bibliography.