Synthetic biology is a set of emerging technologies enabling the modification and creation of living cells and organisms, and of their building blocks. It promises breakthroughs in fundamental biology and has possible applications in fields ranging from nutrition to engineering.¹

Unlike any other discipline, mathematics is deeply rooted in almost every human culture. This has been the case for as long as written records have existed. The practices of counting, measuring, arranging, quantifying and comparing objects in the physical world around us is so useful that we begin to teach them to our children at a very young age.