References 



GENERAL REFERENCES 



Biophysical Science, by Eugene Ackerman. Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood 

 Cliffs, N. J., 1962. This is the best general textbook to appear to date. There 

 are some limitations which are undoubtedly due to the fact that a single author 

 has attempted to cover the entire broad scope of biophysics. 



Molecular Biophysics, by Richard Setlow and Ernest Pollard. Addison- 

 Wesley Publishing Co., Inc., Reading, Mass., 1962. Some parts of this text are 

 very clever and illustrate the point of view of biophysicists very much better 

 than does Ackerman's text. However, some important concepts are not defined, 

 and the text is less up to date and less inclusive than Ackerman's. 



Medical Physics, edited by 0. Glasser. Year Book Publishers, Inc., Chicago. 

 This collection of short articles is intended for those whose background is not 

 greatly different from that of beginning science students. It includes many 

 aspects of science which are within its intended scope of medical physics as 

 distinguished from tiophysies. 



SELECTED REFERENCES 



Chapter 1 



Errors of Observation and Their Treatment, by J. Topping. Reinhold 

 Publishing Corporation, New York, 1958. An excellent short treatment of many 

 aspects of statistical analysis. Students should own this little book, which 

 will serve them well throughout their science careers. 



Facts from Figures, by M. J. Moroney. Penguin Books Inc., Baltimore, 

 1958. A wordy (but interestingly written) exposition of the ideas of elementary 

 statistics. 



Chapter 2 



So far as I know the only book that treats the material discussed in this chapter 

 on the desired level is the text by Setlow and Pollard. However, the mathe- 

 matical and physical discussions of the topics is beyond the background of most 

 beginning students. A much more suitable treatment will be contained in a book 

 being readied for publication by Addison- Wesley: Biophysical Principles of 

 Structure and Function, by Fred M. Snell, Sidney Shulman, Richard P. Spencer, 

 and Carl Moos. 



Chapter 3 



There are good discussions of this topic in both Ackerman, and Setlow and 

 Pollard. 



Vision and the Eye, by M. H. Pirenne. Chapman and Hall, London, 1948. 

 An excellent book for an introduction to a substantial fraction of the work in 

 this area. It is now a little out of date, but is recommended both for its content 

 and for the interesting presentation of an interesting subject. 



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