February 18, 2011

random

we used concepts from calculus all the time in biology. for example, the rate of change in a measurement overtime equals to its derivative, but we never really have to integrate or take the derivative of a function. we are usually using measured datapoints, not any underlying functions. probability and statistics in much more relatvant to what i do that calculus.

the field of biolgy that models everything as a system of underlying mathemtatical functions is called "systems biology". I don't really trust systems biology. It is fundamentally true, since it is based in math, but only loosely based on reality, since biology is so fucking complicated.