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Number: the Language of Science

1941; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 147; Issue: 3714 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/147009a0

1476-4687

J. B. S. Haldane,

Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

PROF. DANTZIG'S title raised my hopes. As a biometrician concerned in an attempt to substitute mathematical expressions for such useful, if slightly vague, biological expressions as race, type, heredity, and variation, I hoped that he might show why science is inevitably and progressively doomed to use mathematics as its language. He might even furnish me with arguments to be used on my non-mathematical colleagues. Number: the Language of Science By Prof. Tobias Dantzig. Second revised and enlarged edition, based on the third American edition. Pp. xi + 320 + 11 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1940). 10s. net.