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arXiv:2103.04190math.HO

A mathematician's view of the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology

Alexandre Borovik

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This paper discusses, from a mathematician's point of view, the thesis formulated by Israel Gelfand, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, and one of the pioneers of mathematical biology: "There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology."

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