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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Reflection of Life
    sub title: Functional Entailment and Imminence in Relational Biology
  name:
    name part: Louie, A. H.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXII, 243 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by A. H. Louie.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Systems biology
  subject:
    topic: Algebra
  subject:
    topic: Functional analysis
  subject:
    topic: Biomathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical and Computational Biology
  subject:
    topic: Functional Analysis
  subject:
    topic: General Algebraic Systems
  subject:
    topic: Systems Biology
  classification: QH323.5
  classification: QH324.2-324.25
  classification: 570.285
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, 29
  identifier: 9781461469285
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6928-5
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