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Equivalence of the theories of nervous excitation of Hill, Monnier, and Rashevsky

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New and direct proofs of the equivalence of the three theories of nervous excitation are developed, and by the introduction of theHauptnutzzeit as the unit of time and a special unit for the measurement of the excitatory state, a normal form for Rashevsky's equations is obtained which exhibits clearly the relations among the various independent parameters.

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    Alston S. Householder

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Householder, A.S. Equivalence of the theories of nervous excitation of Hill, Monnier, and Rashevsky. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 6, 79–81 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478486

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