Mathematical Biology An Introduction with Maple and Matlab /

• Main Authors: Shonkwiler, Ronald W. (Author), Herod, James. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Computer science.; Biology > Data processing.; Biology > Mathematics.; Distribution (Probability theory).; Mathematical Biology in General.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Applications of Mathematics.; Computer Applications.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70984-0

This text presents mathematical biology as a field with a unity of its own, rather than only the intrusion of one science into another. It updates an earlier successful edition and greatly expands the concept of the "computer biology laboratory," giving students a general perspective of th...

Table of Contents:

• Biology, Mathematics and a Mathematical Biology Laboratory
• Some Mathematical Tools
• Reproduction of the Drive for Survival
• Interactions Between Organisms and Their Environment
• Age-Dependent Population Structures
• Random Movements in Space and Time
• The Biological Disposition of Drugs and Inorganic Toxins
• Neurophysiology
• The Biochemistry of Cells
• The Biological Disposition of Drugs and Inorganic Toxins
• A Biomathematical Approach to HIV and AIDS
• Parasites and Their Diseases
• Genetics
• Genomics
• Phylogenetics.