René Thom
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“The essential point of view advanced here is this: the stability of every
living being, as of every structurally stable form, rests, in the last analysis, on a for-
mal structure—in fact, a geometrical object—whose biochemical realization is the
living being.”
― Morphogenèse et imaginaire (Circé)
living being, as of every structurally stable form, rests, in the last analysis, on a for-
mal structure—in fact, a geometrical object—whose biochemical realization is the
living being.”
― Morphogenèse et imaginaire (Circé)
“At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?”
― Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
― Structural Stability and Morphogenesis
“A mathematical object, defined by an infinity of operations, can be considered to have a real existence only if this same object can be, as it were, immersed 'in a natural way' in the continuum, and the iteration itself has a continuous representation.”
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