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Geometries of the Living : Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 4 October 2007 / Alain Prochiantz.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Prochiantz, Alain
Contributor:
Corvol, Pierre
Prochiantz, Alain
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
History & Philosophy Of Science.
biology.
development.
genetics.
morphogenesis.
genome.
life science.
proteins.
Local Subjects:
History & Philosophy Of Science.
biology.
development.
genetics.
morphogenesis.
genome.
life science.
proteins.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (21 p.)
Place of Publication:
Paris : Collège de France, 2016.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
My idea of a theory in biology is quite different from the theoretical biology that is expressed as equations of observed or photographed phenomena. I have a simpler, more concrete conception. Not a mathematical description of what is seen, but an evolving model, a tool developed through bricolage, with mathematics perhaps, but also natural language: one that serves above all to understand the unseen; to guess, beneath the visible, the invisible dimensions of life forms, the underlying “logic”.
Notes:
OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554
ISBN:
9782722604377
272260437X

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