Designed to help students understand the role mathematics plays in the life sciences, this text provides a thorough grounding in mathematics, the language, and the "technology of thought" with which these developments are created and controlled. The book follows three themes throughout: growth, diffusion, and selection. Each theme is studied in turn with the three kinds of models that structure the course: discrete-time dynamical systems, differential equations, and stochastic processes. Techniques and insights build on each other throughout the book. Along the way, students learn and apply the standard material of a calculus course (differentiation, integration, and their applications).
- ISBN10 0534348165
- ISBN13 9780534348168
- Publish Date 22 January 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Brooks/Cole
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 1067
- Language English