MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY: Master Class in Evolutionary Modeling -- Frank 314 (5807): 1878 -- Science

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY: Master Class in Evolutionary Modeling -- Frank 314 (5807): 1878 -- Science:

"How does one identify a significant idea? From the purely intellectual perspective, the great mathematician G. H. Hardy gave perhaps the best answer: 'We may say, roughly, that a mathematical idea is 'significant' if it can be connected, in a natural and illuminating way, with a large complex of other mathematical ideas. Thus a serious mathematical theorem, a theorem which connects significant ideas, is likely to lead to important advances in mathematics itself and even in other sciences' (1). Hardy's definition of significance applies not just to mathematics but to any discipline."