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The Birth of Rational Medicine
Among the theorists of medicine in Antiquity, the names of Hippocrates and Galen, the first to use rational methods for studying disease, have gone down in history. Before them, Pythagoras had laid the first foundations of Western medicine.
Diagnosis: Medical reasoning
Mathematical reasoning leads to certainties, provided it respects logic and the axioms, whereas even the most competent doctor can make a mistake in a diagnosis. How can we explain this difference?
Mathematics and medicine news
Mathematics in everyday medicine
Maths applied to medicine
Mathematics is essential to cutting-edge technology
Crossed etymologies
Most medical terms are of Greek origin, sometimes Latin. And while mathematics is sometimes reluctant to draw on ancient languages, certain fields have borrowed vocabulary from them. This explains why we find common roots in these two disciplines.
Tips for testing or estimating
How can we cut the cost of tests or estimate the size of groups of infected people without knowing which ones they are? Here are a few tricks!
Homeopathy: alternative medicine or pseudoscience?
The origin of the little granules