Anthony Francis Bartholomay (1919–1975) was a mathematician who introduced

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, a topic on which he wrote books.

Life

Bartholomay was born on August 11, 1919. He would receive degrees from Hamilton College,

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, and Harvard University. Bartholomay would work at Harvard Medical School, Medical School of Ohio,

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, Keuka College,

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, and Rutgers University. He died on March 21, 1975, at 55 years old. A resident of the Somerset section of Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, he died at a

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he had three weeks prior to his death.

Molecular set theory

Molecular set theory (MST) is a mathematical formulation of the wide-sense chemical kinetics of biomolecular reactions in terms of sets of molecules and their chemical transformations represented by set-theoretical mappings between molecular sets.

Career

He was a professor and chairmen of the Department of Mathematical Medicine at the

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. He was only part of the Department of Mathematical Medicine from 1969 until 1972 when he left. The department subsequently collapsed the following year.

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website had Anthony Bartholomay listed as an investigator but was hosted at Harvard Medical School in 1957."Anthony F. Bartholomay, SD , HHMI.org." ''HHMI.org''. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2015.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fulton Newspaper Article
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Life

Molecular set theory

Career

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