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Recently, in the US the NIH unveiled a “roadmap” (http://nihroadmap.nih.gov) designed to provide “new pathways to discovery.”
Mathematics was crucial in the discovery of genes by Mendel (Orel 1984) and in the theory of evolution.
Nobel-Prize-winning experimental work conducted by David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel in the late 1950s consolidated this notion with the discovery that individual neurons in the visual cortex can be characterized as simple line detectors, i.e., that they are most active when a line of a particular orientation is found in a particular part of the visual world [4].
Yet with the discovery of marvelous artifacts and evidence of its cities, Sir Arthur Evans, its principal advocate, made reality out of folklore and myth (see page 33).
The company's Web page depicts him as a Cincinnatus of retailing, one who "did not set out to found a retail group, but did so as a result of one of his passions, the discovery of fine craftsmanship and design."