Mathematical illiteracy impedes progress in biology
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Mathematical Progress in America.
In the remarks that follow, I shall limit myself to a brief consideration of progress in pure mathematics. This I may do the more appropriately, inasmuch as one of my predecessors, Professor R. S. Woodward, at the annual meeting of 1899, gave an account of the advances made in applied mathematics during the nineteenth century. In his address, which was published in the Bulletin for January, 190...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213115109