The Reflection of Life (Record no. 95798)

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International Standard Book Number 9781461469285
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4614-6928-5
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Subject category code PDE
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Subject category code MAT003000
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Classification number 570.285
Edition number 23
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Personal name Louie, A. H.
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Title The Reflection of Life
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Remainder of title Functional Entailment and Imminence in Relational Biology /
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Extent XXXII, 243 p. 83 illus.
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Series statement IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering,
International Standard Serial Number 1574-0463 ;
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Formatted contents note Mapping Origins -- From Points to Sets -- Principles of Set-Valued Mappings -- Censusing Independence -- Set-Valued Mappings Redux -- The Logic of Entailment -- The Imminence Mapping -- Imminence of Life -- Imminence in Models -- Connections -- Symbiosis -- Pathophysiology -- Relational Virology -- Therapeutics.
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Summary, etc A. H. Louie’s The Reflection of Life: Functional Entailment and Imminence in Relational Biology is a continuation of the exploratory journey in relational biology which began with his 2009 monograph More Than Life Itself: A Synthetic Continuation in Relational Biology. The theme of his first book was ‘What is life?’; the theme of this sequel is “How do two life forms interact?” Biology is a subject concerned with organization of relations. Relational biology is the approach that advocates ‘function dictates structure”, rather than ‘structure implies function’. It is mathematics decoded into biological realizations. The book demonstrates some of the powers of the approach of relational biology, and illustrates how pertinent problems in biology can be better addressed this way. In the first volume the theory was developed by using partially ordered sets, lattices, simulations, models, Aristotle’s four causes, graphs, categories, simple and complex systems, anticipatory systems, and metabolism-repair [(M,R)-] systems. Here in the second volume, these tools are expanded to employ set-valued mappings, adjacency matrices, random graphs, and interacting entailment networks. The theory of set-valued mappings culminates in the imminence mapping, which equips the further  investigation of functional entailment in complex relational networks. Imminence in (M,R)-networks that model living systems addresses the topics of biogenesis and natural selection. Interacting (M,R)-networks with mutually entailing processes serve as  models in the study of symbiosis and pathophysiology. The formalism also provides a natural framework for a relational theory of virology and oncology. This book will serve researchers and graduate students in mathematics and biology.
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