Travels on rugged landscapes

Article Abstract:

The participants of the conference on Landscape Paradigms in Physics and Biology held in May 1996, discussed methods to unify the study of biological evolution, physics of glassy material, and mathematical theory of optimization. The dynamics of these three systems can be defined by the motion of a point which represents the current state of the system. The point changes over a mathematical surface which is similar to a landscape.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Evolution (Biology), Evolution, Metallic glasses, Mathematical optimization, Optimization theory

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Conviction by numbers

Article Abstract:

Dutch mathematicians claim that the figure cited in a case in which nurse Lucia de Berk was sentenced to life in prison is a classic example of how statistical reasoning could go horribly wrong. The statistical expert testifying in the case reported that the chance that de Berk presence was mere coincidence was only 1 in 342 million.

Legal issues & crime, Netherlands, Legal/Government Regulation, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners, Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Nurses, Statistics, Analysis, Company legal issue, Cases, Mathematical logic, Mass murder, Statistics (Mathematics), Mathematical statistics, Symbolic and mathematical logic, Berk, Lucia de

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The biologists strike back

Article Abstract:

The science-fiction writers with a background in the biological sciences offer their views about life-science fiction icons such as time machines, spaceships, atomic blasters which come from the physical sciences.

United Kingdom, Life Sciences, Evaluation, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Science fiction writers

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