Can topological data analysis create a revolution in the life sciences?
A model of the interaction between predators and prey explains why sometimes frogs appear to eat snakes.
Does the ability to predict the future define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter?
Some things are so familiar to us that they are simply expected, and we may forget to wonder why they should be that way in the first place. Sex ratios are a good example of this: the number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, but why should this be the case? A simple mathematical argument provides an answer.
