Mathématisation de la biologie, discipline de recherche et discipline enseignée : état des lieux et enjeux didactiques
LANGE Jean-Marc, 15 décembre 2000
The question of the mathematisation of the biology arises at present in its dimension disciplines of research. By consequences, it also arises, from the didactic point of view, in its education to the school and to the secondary school. 
An analysis is made concerning the knowledge to be taught about three examples: the biostatistics, the topology, the formal modellings of the dynamic systems. This analysis appeals to the epistemology and to the history of the sciences. In particular, the history of the emergence of the biostatistics is made. This work shows the didactic interest of the consideration of these domains in the education of the biology. 
This question is also the occasion to interrogate the report that two school disciplines maintain among them. These elements go to the sense of a conception positive and opened by the school disciplines.
Finally, an inquiry allows to characterize three identity relations, of professors trainees of SVT, in the mathematics. These reports show the importance of the initial and continuous training of the teachers of this discipline, with the aim of the mastery of a minimal scientific culture.

Keywords: Didactics - biology - mathematisation - modelling- biostatistics - training.