Math vs bio: different epistemic cultures of explanation
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-11
Responding to a post about the joy of reading mathematicians' takes on biology, misovalko argues it's simply a different epistemic culture — the nature of explanation demanded by biology and math are fundamentally different.
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