Overview
Biology is a source of fascination for most scientists, whether their training is in the life sciences or not. In particular, there is a special satisfaction in discovering an understanding of biology in the context of another science like mathematics. For- nately there are plenty of interesting problems (and fun) in biology, and virtually all scienti?c disciplines have become the richer for it. For example, two major journals, MathematicalBiosciences andJournalofMathematicalBiology, have tripled in size since their inceptions 20-25 years ago. More recently, the advent of genomics has spawned whole new ?elds of study in thebiosciences,?eldssuchasproteomics,comparativegenomics,genomicmedicine, pharmacogenomics, and structural genomics among them. These new disciplines are as much mathematical as biological. Thevariousscienceshaveagreatdealtogivetooneanother, buttherearestilltoo many fences separating them. In writing this book we have adopted the philosophy that mathematical biology is not merely the intrusion of one science into another, but that it has a unity of its own, in which both biology and mathematics should be equal, complete, and ?ow smoothly into and out of one another. There is a timeliness in calculating a protocol for administering a drug. Likewise, the signi?cance of bones being ""sinks"" for lead accumulation while bonemeal is being sold as a dietary c- cium supplement adds new meaning to mathematics as alifescience. The dynamics of a compartmentalized system are classical; applications to biology can be novel. Exponential and logistic population growths are standard studies; the delay in the increaseofAIDScasesbehindtheincreaseintheHIV-positivepopulationisprovo- tive.
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Author: Ronald W. Shonkwiler ,
James Herod
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition: Second Edition 2009
Volume: v. 260
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 2.140kg
ISBN: 9780387709833
ISBN 10: 0387709835
Pages: 551
Publication Date: 21 August 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition: This is a well conceived introduction into some of the most important fields of biomathematics. It aims mainly at undergraduates in mathematics but will be suitable for students who have passed a one-year course of calculus and some linear algebra. ... Each chapter starts with a biological motivation and an introduction of the basic biology required. (R. Burger, Monatshefte fur Mathematik, Vol. 169 (2), February, 2013)
From the reviews of the second edition: This is a well conceived introduction into some of the most important fields of biomathematics. It aims mainly at undergraduates in mathematics but will be suitable for students who have passed a one-year course of calculus and some linear algebra. ... Each chapter starts with a biological motivation and an introduction of the basic biology required. (R. Burger, Monatshefte fur Mathematik, Vol. 169 (2), February, 2013)
