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Dewey Class	570.285
Title	The Reflection of Life (EB) : Functional Entailment and Imminence in Relational Biology / by A. H. Louie.
Author	Louie, Aloisius Ho-Yin
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	New York, NY : Springer
Publication	, 2013.
Physical Details	XXXII, 243 pages. 83 illus. : online resource.
Series	IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering 1574-0463 ; ; 29
ISBN	9781461469285
Summary Note	A. H. Louieâs 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 âWhat is life?â; the theme of this sequel is âHow do two life forms interact?â Biology is a subject concerned with organization of relations. Relational biology is the approach that advocates âfunction dictates structureâ, rather than âstructure implies functionâ. 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, Aristotleâs 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 Â 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 Â 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.:
Contents note	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.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users).
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6928-5
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Algebra . Biological models . Functional Analysis . General Algebraic Systems . Mathematical and Computational Biology . Mathematics . Systems Biology . Authors: Louie, Aloisius Ho-Yin . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering . Classification: 570.285 .

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