The Equations of Life

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How Music, Ageing, and Cancer Obey the Same Mathematics

Sasi Shanmugam Senga

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English

Kcf Press
16 January 2026

Applied mathematics; Impact of science & technology on society; Biology, life sciences

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The Equations of Life

Why do some systems endure, while others collapse suddenly?

Why does music feel stable even as it unfolds? Why can the human body hold together for decades, and then fail abruptly? Why does ageing feel gradual, but cancer feel like a shock?

The Equations of Life argues that these are not separate mysteries. They are expressions of the same underlying mathematics.

Written by a neurosurgical oncologist, this book reveals a unifying logic behind music, health, ageing, cancer, and complex systems. Across these domains, the same rule applies: coherence persists only while regulation can keep pace with noise and time. When it can, systems endure. When regulation weakens, they drift. When it collapses, behaviour changes regime.

This is not a technical book, and it offers no miracle cures. Instead, it explains, clearly and without sensationalism, why health is dynamic balance rather than perfection, why ageing is not failure but drift, and why cancer represents a fundamental loss of control rather than accelerated ageing.

Blending science, medicine, history, and lived experience, The Equations of Life is for readers interested in how complex systems, from bodies and brains to music and institutions, hold together, come apart, and sometimes fail suddenly after long periods of apparent stability.

This book does not promise permanence. It explains persistence.

By: Sasi Shanmugam Senga
Imprint: Kcf Press
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780648928522
ISBN 10: 0648928527
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 16 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active