Role of Mathematical Population Geneticists in the Evolutionary Synthesis of the 1930’s and 40’s

The role played by exact mathematics in the development of science is often controversial. When Isaac Newton published his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Robert Hooke immediately responded that Newton had merely explored the mathematical consequences of Hooke’s own idea of the inverse square law of gravitational attraction. To this accusation, Newton angrily replied: Mathematicians, who find out, settle, and do all the business, must content themselves with being nothing but dry calculators and drudges; and another, who does nothing but pretend and grasp at all things, must carry away all the invention.2

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