Juan García Menéndez

Math is everywhere: weather, economy, social behavior … and biology too. There are complex
processes in this branch of science that involve a lot of magnitudes and are non-linear. The
difference between linear and non-linear processes is you get a proportional response to a change
in a linear system and a complex response in the non-linear case. Such outputs can be very
different between two close input values and depend on previously of them.

Studying non-linear systems clinicians have determined that a simple response of heart rate is a
sign of a disease. This fact is paradoxical but it is because of a losing of information in disease.
Scale invariant processes have the feature of a fractal. These processes have fluctuations on
different length scales. When physiological a system hasn’t got a scale-invariance a first prediction
is that there is a disease. Other use of fractal is the physiological modeling of signal-transduction
cascades.