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Looking for a mathematics for living systems: Reply to comments on “Towards a mathematical theory of living systems focusing on developmental biology and evolution: A review and perspectives”

✍ Scribed by N. Bellomo; B. Carbonaro

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
105 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
1571-0645

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✦ Synopsis

This note is motivated by various commentaries which have critically analyzed our contribution to a personal perspective on the conceptual difficulties that mathematics meets when attempting to describe the complexity of living matter, and specifically on the challenging goal of developing a mathematical theory for the evolution of living systems.

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