Geometries of the Living

Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 4 October 2007

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Biology
Cover of the book Geometries of the Living by Alain Prochiantz, Collège de France
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Author: Alain Prochiantz ISBN: 9782722604377
Publisher: Collège de France Publication: March 17, 2016
Imprint: Collège de France Language: English
Author: Alain Prochiantz
ISBN: 9782722604377
Publisher: Collège de France
Publication: March 17, 2016
Imprint: Collège de France
Language: English

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”.

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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”.

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