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== Biological mathematics is a misnomer ==
 
Mathematics has application to biology, and machines for computation based upon biology may exist, but to state that the "exploration and exploitation" of biological systems is itself ''mathematics'' is an error. Mathematics is a conceptual construct independent of its applications in principle, although of course, applications can stimulate mathematical creativity. [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 15:56, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 
GH Hardy paraphrases Gauss: "if mathematics is the queen of the sciences, then the theory of numbers is, because of its extreme uselessness, the queen of mathematics" ''A Mathematician's Apology'', p. 120 [[User:John R. Brews|John R. Brews]] 16:11, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

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