Just received my latest shipment of books.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Mathematical stability
The above plot was generated by Google ngrams which, based on all documents in Google Books, calculates the relative usage of a word or sequence of words. Some subjects gain, and subsequently loose popularity, while others seem more stable.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
New year and old challenges
More than a month of snow and ice, and now end to it in sight. Good times for staying indoors and reading. My aim is to read through "Towards a theoretical biology" vol. 1-4 from the 1960s. This series was the result of 4 biyearly symposia organised by Waddington and try to define the challenges and set the course for theoretical biology as a discipline. I wonder if we succeeded?
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