Biological information is discrete, layered and measured indirectly, so every dataset here is a measurement rather than the thing itself.
Discrete, layered, and measured indirectly.
How this chapter is built
M0Narrative
No mathematical load. Notation may appear; nothing is derived.
basics0/4what the words mean
concept2/2what to picture
theory—why it works, and when it does not
mathematics—derive it, then compute it
practice0/3build it, break it, read the papers
Five strands, not one. Mathematics is the spine; the other four are the body. A chapter cannot pay its way out of teaching with problems, nor out of problems with teaching.
The problem
A reader arriving from Books I to VI knows how to model data but not what this data is. The vocabulary comes first, and with it the fact that every biological measurement is an inference from a proxy.
Fig. 1 — The HierarchiRetina three-stage pipeline: screening, five parallel lesion segmenters, and lesion-guided grading over eight channels.
What this chapter covers
DNA
RNA
Proteins
Genes
Genomes
Cells
Propositions
Not yet written. The topics above are the plan for this chapter; each will become a proposition with its own figure.