Mathematics and the Natural Sciences: The Physical Singularity of Life

by Francis Bailly and Giuseppe Longo

This book identifies the organizing concepts of physical and biological phenomena by an analysis of the foundations of mathematics and physics. Our aim is to propose a dialog between different conceptual universes and thus to provide a unification of phenomena. The role of "order" and symmetries in the foundations of mathematics is linked to the main invariants and principles, among them the geodesic principle (a consequence of symmetries), which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848166931
• ISBN13: 9781848166936
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"