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Reading and attending science lectures at school has opened my eyes to the
in-creasing interdisciplinarity of modern science, as scientists have realised
over the past century that many phenomena, from cognition to the weather,
can neither be reduced to fundamental physical principles nor pigeon-holed
into a single field. I believe the cutting edge of science today is at the
intersection of different disciplines, for instance the use of computational
and statistical models in systems biology; in researching Brownian motion
for my physics AS coursework I was impressed by the use of maths to
describe diffusion but also its ability to capture a wealth of critical
biological phenomena. This is why I wish to take a course which crosses
these traditional boundaries, so as to gain the breadth of knowledge with
which to understand and appreciate more fully the beauty of the natural
world.