Abstract
Several reasons lead the President of the Pierre et Marie Curie University to agree to sponsor this Symposium, which I had the privilege to open on 21 June 1977 :
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the fact that Professor J.L. BINET, who asked me to open the Symposium, belongs to one of the three Medicine Faculties of this University.
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the bonds that link together the Natural History Museum (where the Symposium was held) and the Pierre et Marie Curie University.
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the variety of scientific fields represented in the Symposium is comparable to that observed in a University.
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the very topic of the proposed double feature — geometrical probability for the Symposium, and its relation to graphical arts (through Buffon) for the painting exposition. This suggests binding thought and expression, its formal translation, and once more raises the problem of sign interpretation, well known by medical scientists as the problem of semeiology.
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Dry, J. (1978). Opening Speech. In: Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (eds) Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8_1
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