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A list of selected phenomena characterizing living systems on the main levels of the manifestation of life is considered. As a result of directed interpretation of these phenomena, life (in becomming of earthly reality) appears as an informational physico-mathematical process that solves the problem of optimal relations of its variability and heredity in a changing environment. Practical solutions found by living systems in the course of evolution can be used and are used in applied mathematics as approaches of working with information. Genetic and quantum algorithms, neural networks, annealing are important milestones of this use. On this way, mathematics discovers an unexpected efficiency in working with big data arrays, which represent the main content of modern biology.
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Guzev, M.A., Zhuravlev, Y.N. To the Justification of the Effectiveness of Future Mathematics in the New Biology. Russ. J. Math. Phys. 29, 500–507 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1061920822040082
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