caa a22 4500 465821731 CHVBK 20180323112137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00047270 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00047270 Deakin Michael Department of Mathematics, Monash University, 3168, Clayton, Australia aut Catastrophe modelling in the biological sciences [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Deakin] Catastrophe Theory was developed in an attempt to provide a form of Mathematics particularly apt for applications in the biological sciences. It was claimed that while it could be applied in the more conventional "physical” way, it could also be applied in a new "metaphysical” way, derived from the Structuralism of Saussure in Linguistics and Lévi-Strauss in Anthropology. Since those early beginnings there have been many attempts to apply Catastrophe Theory to Biology, but these hopes cannot be said to have been fully realised. This paper will document and classify the work that has been done. It will be argued that, like other applied Mathematics, applied Catastrophe Theory works best where the underlying laws are securely known and precisely quantified, requiring those same guarantees as does any other branch of Mathematics when it confronts a real-life situation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Acta Biotheoretica Kluwer Academic Publishers 38/1(1990-03-01), 3-22 0001-5342 38:1<3 1990 38 10441 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Deakin Michael Department of Mathematics, Monash University, 3168, Clayton, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Acta Biotheoretica Kluwer Academic Publishers 38/1(1990-03-01), 3-22 0001-5342 38:1<3 1990 38 10441 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer