Friday, February 4, 2011

Biology is on the verge of rediscovering the calculus...

Sometimes you love a paper, and sometimes you hate it. Today's paper is neither, but it will offer a glimpse as to why I sometimes deride less mathematically rigorous disciplines.

Here's a paper that pats itself on the back for using the trapezoidal method of integral calculation. And gets published. And cited like it's nobody's business. Wow.

abstract and paper