7 October 2022
Andrés Ortiz-Muñoz
Santa Fe Institute
What does mathematics have to say about biology? Or perhaps even more intriguingly, what does biology have to say about mathematics? How can we even begin to answer these questions? Biology and mathematics may have more in common than we are used to think about. Fundamental questions in biology, such as self organization and origins of life, may have something to say about the foundations of mathematics. Conversely, questions about the foundations of mathematics and computation may have something to say about biology. In this theory lunch we will use the language of category theory to speculate about a synthesis of biology and mathematics.