The Seven Lamps of Bioengineering

Saint Mathesis, patron of mathematics, used to be surrounded by seven lamps eternally lit: lampas utilitatis (usefulness), lampas imaginationis (imagination), lampas poesis (creativity), lampas infinitatis (infinite), lampas decoris (beauty), lampas mysterii (mystery), and lampas religionis (religion). Bioengineering, strongly supported by mathematics, searches the quantification of the biomedical sciences. No doubt, these lamps also illuminate its course because this interdiscipline is certainly useful, for it applies directly or indirectly to the human being. It requires tremendous imagination and creativity and extends unlimited in all directions branching off here and there. It is as beautiful as an enchanted fairy while it shines with some degree of mystery when penetrating the darkness of the unknown, so spurring curiosity, and shows also even mystical and mythical edges when human, ethical, and religious aspects are touched [1].