In article <1991Nov7.151447.15447 at spool.cs.wisc.edu> beverly at cs.wisc.edu (Beverly Seavey) writes:
>>>> I would really like to hear more from biologists on this subject.
>>Does it bother you that a lot of interesting biological work is being
>> I am a biologist with a degree in math from MIT. I don't consider myself
> to "not be mathematically astute". Most of the questions that biologists
> find interesting have not yet been shown to be amenable to mathematical
> analysis. Biophysics issues like blood flow require so many simplifications
> for analysis that they aren't very biological. The question of WHY
> biology doesn't behave like physics has been debated by people for years.
> I remember a Freeman Dyson lecture/essay about just this.
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>Domain: curtiss at umiacs.umd.edu Phillip Curtiss
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And Watson of Watson & Crick ( a physicist and designer of
anti-submarine mines) decided (after the War) that biology _had_ to be
following the "same" rules as the rest of the Universe....and got into
DNA research as a suitable "model" system.
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