Intangible Life

Functorial Connections in Relational Biology

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av A.H. Louie, A. H. Louie

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This rare publication continues an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of biology in terms of the organization of networked connections in living systems.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-31
Mått155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt441 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnticipation Science
Antal sidor264
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319880211

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Aloisius H. Louie is a mathematical biologist, whose research areas have encompassed abstract formulations, mathematical modelling, and computer simulations of various natural and physical phenomena, including the dynamic behaviour of protein molecules, enzyme-substrate recognition, processes of irreversible thermodynamics, human-pollutant interactions, the cell biology of senescence, and electromagnetics. His premier interest, however, remains the epistemological aspects of mathematical biology. He is glad to have returned to it in 2005 as an independent scholar with no academic affiliations, after a twenty-year interlude of doing mathematical modelling as a scientist-for-hire. His approach to the subject is called ‘relational biology’, in keeping with the school pioneered by Nicolas Rashevsky and Robert Rosen. He has thus far published two books on the subject: More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relation Biology [ontos 2009] and The Reflection of Life: FunctionalEntailment and Imminence in Relational Biology [Springer 2013]. Intangible Life: Functorial Connections in Relational Biology now represents ‘episode 3’.

PART I: Potestas: The Power Set Functor.- Chapter 1. Prooemium: Relations.- Chapter 2. Solus: Mappings.- Chapter 3. Congeries: Set-Valued Mappings.- Chapter 4. Coniunctio: Functorial Connections.- Part II: Sicut: Natural Law and the Modelling Relation.- Chapter 5. Modus: Rational Nature.- Chapter 6. Opera: By-Products and Side-Effects.- Chapter 7. Metabolism and Repair.- Chapter 8. Replication.- PART III: Dimissio: From Invertibility to Adjunction.- Chapter 9. Equivalence.- Chapter 10. Adjunction.- Chapter 11. Descartes and Galois.- Chapter 12. Free and Forgetful.- Chapter 13. Power and Riches.- Acknowledgment.- Bibliography.- Index.