title: Biology and mathematics: a fruitful merger of two cultures.
abstract: The great promise of biological science is not its 'mathematization' per se, but the creative interaction between experimental biology and what one, in analogy to physics, may simply call theoretical biology. The key to, and also the great challenge in, fulfilling this promise is to find the correct fundamental notions to mathematically describe biological reality.
authors.affiliation: Physik Department der TU München & BCCN - Munich, 85747, Garching bei München, Germany. LvH@tum.de
authors.forename: J Leo
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: van Hemmen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001695:Biology; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics