Mathematical Models in Biology
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Author(s): L. Edelstein-Keshet
Publisher: SIAM
ISBN: 0898715547
Format: softback
586pp
Price: $50.00
Review Date: 16 May 2005
Review: The aim of the author in this Classic book is to provide instances of interaction between two major disciplines, biology and mathematics, so that biology students have a summary of the modern mathematical methods that are currently used in modelling, and maths students could benefit from the examples of applications of the mathematics to real-life problems. The models fall into three broad categories: populations that reproduce at fixed intervals; processes that may be viewed as continuous in time; and systems for which distribution over space is an important feature. Since its first publication in 1988, the genomics revolution turned mathematical biology into a prominent area in interdisciplinary research. The republication reflects the recent resurgence in mathematical biology.