Abstract:One characteristic that defines us, human beings, is the curiosity of the unknown. Since our birth, we have been trying to use any methods that human brains can comprehend to explore the nature: to mimic, to understand, and to utilize in a controlled and repeatable way. One of the most ancient means lies in the nature herself, experiments, leading to tremendous achievements from the creation of fire to the scissors of genes. Then comes mathematics, a new world we made by numbers and symbols, where the nature i… Show more
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