A. R. Luria

Luria-Delbruck Fluctuation Test

Vygotsky , Luria , and the Social Brain

Freud, Luria and the Clinical Method

This paper begins with a review of the scientific and technical problems that led Freud to abandonneuroscience and to establish the new discipline of psychoanalysis. That review is followed by aconsideration of some developments that took place in the neurosciences after Freud's death, due to theefforts of the Soviet neurologist, A.R. Luria. These developments seem to reverse the hi...

Pitfalls and practice of Luria-Delbrück fluctuation analysis: a review.

Luria-Delbrück fluctuation analysis provides a method to estimate mutation rates in cell populations. Originally designed for bacterial populations, the method now is widely applied in somatic cell genetics and in cancer biology. However, there are fundamental genetic differences between bacteria and somatic cells, and this together with the inherent mathematical complexity of fluctuation analy...

A Convergence Theorem for the Standard Luria–Delbrück Distribution

A new scaling for the standard discrete Luria-Delbrück distribution is provided which leads to a weak convergence result as the parameter of the distribution tends to infinity. We show that the stable limiting probability measure has the Fourier transform t → exp(−π|t|/2−it log |t|). For the corresponding density an integral representation is derived, which differs from that found in a closely ...