Saturday, September 22, 2007

Lotka's Elements of Mathematical Biology

Lotka 's Elements of Mathematical Biology is a truly impressive resource!

prescient might be the operative term on many matters from simple chemistry to global warming ... He points to the influence of Poynting on his work. He makes some remarkable observations -- they seem trivial at first but are really profound .. like:

"There's clearly a tacit assumption here that because two distinct words are found in the vocabulary, therefore two correspondingly distinct things exist in nature" ...Exposing such assumptions is priceless ...

Another priceless quote is:
But there is a blindness that is not in the eye, and there's a vision that surpasses optical vision

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