It's worth noting that the author of this article is in the field of Biology, which is one of the last hold-outs for a mathematical revolution. Compared to othe

It's worth noting that the author of this article is in the field of Biology, which is one of the last hold-outs for a mathematical revolution. Compared to other STEM fields, biology tends to utilize mathematics the least, especially mor e advanced mathematics. There are of course exceptions, and some great work being done in biological mathematics, but I wonder if the authors viewpoint is changed by this. Anecdotally, I once sat in on a biology lecture(In a math department even) where a visiting lecturer stated his opinion that biology students should not learn differential equations, but should rather just learn to enter them in a computer and follow the phase diagrams. Needless to say, it did not go over well in that crowd.