Geometries of the Living
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 4 October 2007
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Biology
| 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”.
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”.
