More than life itself : a synthetic continuation in relational biology /

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A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a sy...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Louie, Aloisius Ho-Yin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Piscataway, NJ : Ontos Verlag ; [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, 2009.
Series:Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Biomathematics.
Biology > Mathematical models.
Life (Biology) > Philosophy.
Categories (Mathematics)
Biomathématiques.
Biologie > Modèles mathématiques.
Vie (Biologie) > Philosophie.
Catégories (Mathématiques)
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
Biology > Mathematical models
Biomathematics
Life (Biology) > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:A. H. Louie's More Than Life Itself is an exploratory journey in relational biology, a study of life in terms of the organization of entailment relations in living systems. This book represents a synergy of the mathematical theories of categories, lattices, and modelling, and the result is a synthetic biology that provides a characterization of life. Biology extends physics. Life is not a specialization of mechanism, but an expansive generalization of it. Organisms and machines share some common features, but organisms are not machines. Life is defined by a relational closure that places it be.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 388 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-376) and index.
ISBN:9783110321944
3110321947

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