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In this chapter we review some recent trends in the natural and biomedical sciences related to issues of complexity and reductionism , mathematical modeling and simulations, with particular reference to system biology , and discuss the impact of these developments on future research training .
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Fenstad, J.E. (2018). Changes of the Knowledge System and Their Implication for the Formative Stage of Scholars: Experiences in the Natural Sciences. In: Structures and Algorithms. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72974-9_4
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