ABSTRACT
Erwin Schrodinger introduced an approximation that amounts to assuming Hardy–Weinberg proportions and treated the process as continuous in time. According to Erwin Schrodinger’s daughter, Ruth Braunizer, Erwin’s father possessed a large library, which his son used at random “practically from the day he was able to read.” In 1939, Schrodinger arrived in Dublin, Ireland, to serve as the first director of the school of theoretical physics at the newly established Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. Schrodinger focused attention on two topics in biology: the nature of the hereditary material and the thermodynamics of living systems. In Schrodinger’s time, the genetic material was generally considered to be a protein, rather than a nucleic acid. Schrodinger presented a long discourse, discussing his views on the merits of the Hindu caste system, the concept of reincarnation, transmigration of souls, and numerous other aspects of Hinduism and Indian philosophies.
