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Publisher : CUP Archive
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Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Axiomatic Method in Biology written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Leinster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832709
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Entropy and Diversity written by Tom Leinster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the mathematical riches of 'what is diversity?' in a book that adds mathematical rigour to a vital ecological debate.
Author : Martin Mahner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662033682
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Foundations of Biophilosophy written by Martin Mahner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. The authors take a fresh look at the life sciences and the philosophy of biology from a strictly realist and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and science-oriented philosophical framework that enables the clarification of many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. This book will be of interest both to life scientists and philosophers.
Author : Andrei Rodin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319004042
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Axiomatic Method and Category Theory written by Andrei Rodin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion about how these notions changed over the millennia. The author, a well-known philosopher and historian of mathematics, first examines Euclid, who is considered the father of the axiomatic method, before moving onto Hilbert and Lawvere. He then presents a deep textual analysis of each writer and describes how their ideas are different and even how their ideas progressed over time. Next, the book explores category theory and details how it has revolutionized the notion of the axiomatic method. It considers the question of identity/equality in mathematics as well as examines the received theories of mathematical structuralism. In the end, Rodin presents a hypothetical New Axiomatic Method, which establishes closer relationships between mathematics and physics. Lawvere's axiomatization of topos theory and Voevodsky's axiomatization of higher homotopy theory exemplify a new way of axiomatic theory building, which goes beyond the classical Hilbert-style Axiomatic Method. The new notion of Axiomatic Method that emerges in categorical logic opens new possibilities for using this method in physics and other natural sciences. This volume offers readers a coherent look at the past, present and anticipated future of the Axiomatic Method.
Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199287953
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotle's Biology written by Allan Gotthelf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology, the axiomatic structure of biological explanation, and the reliance on scientifically organized data in the three great works with which Aristotle laid the foundations of biological science.
Author : Zhao Qinyi
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813209283
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Origin Of Natural Order, The: An Axiomatic Theory Of Biology written by Zhao Qinyi and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All sorts of biological activities are processed thermodynamically, and at the utmost fundamental level, the laws of biology must be thermodynamics. However, the current laws of thermodynamics are unable to give reasonable explanation of biological processes. In order to do so, irreversible thermodynamics has been theorized to describe the basic mechanism for the origin of natural order or the development of things (related to developmental biology). The scientific definition of the system theory concept has been obtained and the properties of a biological system can be analyzed by applying principles of it. Irreversible thermodynamics and system theory act as the theoretical foundation for theoretical biology. By applying principles of irreversible thermodynamics and system theory, the axiomatic theory of biology has been developed. Contents: PrefaceIntroductionPhysical Foundation: The Essence of Irreversible ThermodynamicsThe Origin of Natural OrderThe Developing System and Hierarchical Structure of ThingsPartition Function of a Thermodynamic SystemDissipative Structure and Thermodynamic Structure TheorySystem Logic and System Theory: The Scientific Definition of the SystemLogic Discontinuity and Continuity Between Different Levels of Hierarchical StructureSystem LogicIsolating Logic Relationship Between Complex SystemsAxiomatic Theory of Biology: Irreversible Thermodynamic Structure Theory for Protein FoldingCan We Go from Protein Sequence to Protein Structure?Protein Thermodynamic Structure TheoryGeneral Properties of a ProteinProtein ConformationDynamic and Thermodynamic Nature of Protein Conformational ChangeProtein Ligand InteractionThe Receptor Activation and Fashions of Protein RegulationThe Basic Thermodynamic Principles of Enzyme Catalyzed ReactionProtein Conformational Change and Enzyme ActivityAllodynamic Regulation Model for Enzyme Regulation — A Thermodynamic ViewThe Protein EvolutionA Thermodynamic Model for Bio-signalsProtein Flexibility as a BiosignalSignal Conduction and Neural ConductionSignaling Network Theory and System BiologyBiological DevelopmentHybridization and Hybrid VigorBiological EvolutionScientific Explanation of Traditional Chinese Medical Theory Readership: Graduate students, educators, university lecturers in biophysics. Keywords: Ligands;Protein Folding;DNA;Entropy;Thermodynamics;System Biology;Developmental SystemsReview: Key Features: The first axiomatic theory of biologyIt has unified fields of mathematics, thermodynamics, biologyIt agrees with experimental results in diversified fields of biology well
Author : William H. E. Day
Publisher : SIAM
ISBN 13 : 0898715512
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics written by William H. E. Day and published by SIAM. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique comprehensive review of axiomatic consensus theory in biomathematics as it has developed over the past 30 years.
Author : Giuseppe Longo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642359388
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Organisms written by Giuseppe Longo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authored monograph introduces a genuinely theoretical approach to biology. Starting point is the investigation of empirical biological scaling including their variability, which is found in the literature, e.g. allometric relationships, fractals, etc. The book then analyzes two different aspects of biological time: first, a supplementary temporal dimension to accommodate proper biological rhythms; secondly, the concepts of protension and retention as a means of local organization of time in living organisms. Moreover, the book investigates the role of symmetry in biology, in view of its ubiquitous importance in physics. In relation with the notion of extended critical transitions, the book proposes that organisms and their evolution can be characterized by continued symmetry changes, which accounts for the irreducibility of their historicity and variability. The authors also introduce the concept of anti-entropy as a measure for the potential of variability, being equally understood as alterations in symmetry. By this, the book provides a mathematical account of Gould's analysis of phenotypic complexity with respect to biological evolution. The target audience primarily comprises researchers interested in new theoretical approaches to biology, from physical, biological or philosophical backgrounds, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students who want to enter this field.
Author : Rubem Mondaini
Publisher : Editora E-papers
ISBN 13 : 8587922262
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the First Brazilian Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology written by Rubem Mondaini and published by Editora E-papers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Bunge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401025193
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Method, Model and Matter written by M. Bunge and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays deals with three clusters of problems in the philo sophy of science: scientific method, conceptual models, and ontological underpinnings. The disjointedness of topics is more apparent than real, since the whole book is concerned with the scientific knowledge of fact. Now, the aim of factual knowledge is the conceptual grasping of being, and this understanding is provided by theories of whatever there may be. If the theories are testable and specific, such as a theory of a particular chemical reaction, then they are often called 'theoretical models' and clas sed as scientific. If the theories are extremely general, like a theory of syn thesis and dissociation without any reference to a particular kind of stuff, then they may be called 'metaphysical' - as well as 'scientific' if they are consonant with science. Between these two extremes there is a whole gamut of kinds of factual theories. Thus the entire spectrum should be dominated by the scientific method, quite irrespective of the subject matter. This is the leitmotiv of the present book. The introductory chapter, on method in the philosophy of science, tackles the question 'Why don't scientists listen to their philosophers?'.
Author : Joseph Henry Woodger
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484906944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Biology and Language written by Joseph Henry Woodger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biology and Language: An Introduction to the Methodology of the Biological Sciences Including Medicine; The Tarner Lectures, 1949-50 I have already published two books dealing with method, The Axiomatic Method in Biology and The Technique of Theory Construction. These books were rather technical. The first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Paul Thompson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887069338
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (693 download)
Download or read book The Structure of Biological Theories written by Paul Thompson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central thesis of this book is that the semantic conception is a logical methodologically and heuristically richer and more accurate account of scientific theorizing, and in particular of theorizing in evolutionary biology, than the more widely adhered to syntactic conception. In this book, the author outlines both the conceptions indicating the significant problems with the syntactic conception; explains and criticizes two influential syntactic-conception accounts of the structure of evolutionary theorizing. Thompson also argues that the semantic conception provides a richer and more accurate understanding than the syntactic conception of sociobiological explanation, of the testability of sociobiology, and of the role of culture and cognition in evolutionary explanations of human behavior.
Author : Sean H. Rice
Publisher : Sinauer Associates Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780878937028
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Theory written by Sean H. Rice and published by Sinauer Associates Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary Theory is for graduate students, researchers, and advanced undergraduates who want an understanding of the mathematical and biological reasoning that underlies evolutionary theory. The book covers all of the major theoretical approaches used to study the mechanics of evolution, including classical one- and two-locus models, diffusion theory, coalescent theory, quantitative genetics, and game theory. There are also chapters on theoretical approaches to the evolution of development and on multilevel selection theory. Each subject is illustrated by focusing on those results that have the greatest power to influence the way that we think about how evolution works. These major results are developed in detail, with many accompanying illustrations, showing exactly how they are derived and how the mathematics relates to the biological insights that they yield. In this way, the reader learns something of the actual machinery of different branches of theory while gaining a deeper understanding of the evolutionary process. Roughly half of the book focuses on gene-based models, the other half being concerned with general phenotype-based theory. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the fundamental relationships between the different branches of theory, illustrating how all of these branches are united by a few basic, universal, principles. The only mathematical background assumed is basic calculus. More advanced mathematical methods are explained, with the help of an extensive appendix, when they are needed.
Author : J.R. Gregg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401036039
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Form and Strategy in Science written by J.R. Gregg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men of science are sometimes mistrustful of or at least impatient with philosophy. One of them, himself no stranger to hard thought, was one day heard to comment on his colleagues in another faculty and on their propensity to indulge in what he called "all this nonsense about thinking". Against this may perhaps be set a meeting of philosophers who decided to discuss the Second Law of Thermodynamics. When asked sardonically by a scientist whether they had disproved it, one of the philosophers replied: "No, we have concluded that it is not so much false as meaning less" . This curious appearance of cross purposes reflects something more than mere captiousness or misunderstanding. As to the "nonsense about thinking", it is perfectly true that an excessive formalisation of argu ments does not usually assist clear thinking very much. Plenty of people would be nonplussed by a formal logical exercise of the type: all A is B, Cis B: is C therefore A? But equate A to Frenchman, C to Germans and B to Europeans, and tht:y would never run the slightest risk of going astray.
Author : Walter A. Meyer
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080478034
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Geometry and Its Applications written by Walter A. Meyer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-02-21 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meyer's Geometry and Its Applications, Second Edition, combines traditional geometry with current ideas to present a modern approach that is grounded in real-world applications. It balances the deductive approach with discovery learning, and introduces axiomatic, Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, and transformational geometry. The text integrates applications and examples throughout and includes historical notes in many chapters. The Second Edition of Geometry and Its Applications is a significant text for any college or university that focuses on geometry's usefulness in other disciplines. It is especially appropriate for engineering and science majors, as well as future mathematics teachers. Realistic applications integrated throughout the text, including (but not limited to): Symmetries of artistic patterns Physics Robotics Computer vision Computer graphics Stability of architectural structures Molecular biology Medicine Pattern recognition Historical notes included in many chapters
Author : Maya M. Shmailov
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3319399225
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Intellectual Pursuits of Nicolas Rashevsky written by Maya M. Shmailov and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Nicolas Rashevsky? To answer that question, this book draws on Rashevsky’s unexplored personal archival papers and shares interviews with his family, students and friends, as well as discussions with biologists and mathematical biologists, to flesh out and complete the picture. “Most modern-day biologists have never heard of Rashevsky. Why?” In what constitutes the first detailed biography of theoretical physicist Nicolas Rashevsky (1899-1972), spanning key aspects of his long scientific career, the book captures Rashevsky’s ways of thinking about the place mathematical biology should have in biology and his personal struggle for the acceptance of his views. It brings to light the tension between mathematicians, theoretical physicists and biologists when it comes to the introduction of physico-mathematical tools into biology. Rashevsky’s successes and failures in his efforts to establish mathematical biology as a subfield of biology provide an important test case for understanding the role of theory (in particular mathematics) in understanding the natural world. With the biological sciences moving towards new vistas of inter- and multi-disciplinary collaborations and research programs, the book will appeal to a wide readership ranging from historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture to students and general readers with an interest in the history of the life sciences, mathematical biology and the social construction of science.
Author : Gregory J. Chaitin
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812708952
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Thinking about Gdel and Turing written by Gregory J. Chaitin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Gregory Chaitin, one of the world's leading mathematicians, is best known for his discovery of the remarkable ê number, a concrete example of irreducible complexity in pure mathematics which shows that mathematics is infinitely complex. In this volume, Chaitin discusses the evolution of these ideas, tracing them back to Leibniz and Borel as well as Gdel and Turing.This book contains 23 non-technical papers by Chaitin, his favorite tutorial and survey papers, including Chaitin's three Scientific American articles. These essays summarize a lifetime effort to use the notion of program-size complexity or algorithmic information content in order to shed further light on the fundamental work of Gdel and Turing on the limits of mathematical methods, both in logic and in computation. Chaitin argues here that his information-theoretic approach to metamathematics suggests a quasi-empirical view of mathematics that emphasizes the similarities rather than the differences between mathematics and physics. He also develops his own brand of digital philosophy, which views the entire universe as a giant computation, and speculates that perhaps everything is discrete software, everything is 0's and 1's.Chaitin's fundamental mathematical work will be of interest to philosophers concerned with the limits of knowledge and to physicists interested in the nature of complexity.
