A contribution to the methodology of biomathematics: information science approach to biomathematics, I

Abstract

Our general views on a procedure for developing an information science approach to biomathematics are presented. Sections 2 and 3 analyze in detail two important fields of mathematics, mathematical analysis and automaton theory, emphasizing that their lack of an information science aspect makes them unsatisfactory for formulating biomathematics. In Section 4 we give three requirements that biomathematics should satisfy in order to provide a mathematical foundation for biological existences and biological phenomena. Section 5 presents five assertions that should be in agreement with the three requirements of Section 4 and that exemplify our attitude for developing biomathematics from the standpoint of information science. Section 6 reviews some works on biological control systems analysis from the standpoint of Section 5.