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Mathematical Biology - An Introduction with Maple and Matlab (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2009)
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Mathematical Biology - An Introduction with Maple and Matlab (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2009)
Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
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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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