1997 was an important year in recent philosophy of mathematics, as it saw the publication of four books articulating the positions of five leading philosophers of mathematics: John Burgess and Gideon Rosen's A Subject with No Object, Penelope Maddy's Naturalism in Mathematics, Michael Resnik's Mathematics as the Science of Patterns, and Stewart Shapiro's Philosophy of Mathematics.
Indeed, all sciences search for some aspect of regularity or patterning and nowhere is this truer than in mathematics, which can even be said to be the science of patterns.
Moreover, the diversity of available model organisms would allow a science of conservation genetics to distinguish repeatable patterns from the idiosyncrasies of particular species.
Nonetheless, the patterns are becoming more susceptible to empiricism — to a science of surveillance, analysis, and iterative correction.
The research was carried out by Mindlab International, an independent research company that specialises in neurometrics - the science of measuring patterns of brain activity through EEG, eye tracking and skin conductivity, which tracks emotions.
But of course there is a science and a pattern involved even in being a fan.
Mathematics is often described as the science of finding patterns, which appear throughout nature, in everything from ripples of pond water to the orbits of the planets.
The roster of Ph.D. scientists includes molecular biologists, biophysicists, computer engineers, mathematicians, and experts in bioinformatics, the science of finding patterns in complex biological data.
Data analytics is the science of extracting patterns, trends, and actionable information from large sets of data.
