Mathematical Biology I. An Introduction /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murray, J. D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2002.
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 17
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Life sciences.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Biomathematics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biomedical engineering.; Applications of Mathematics.; Life Sciences, general.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Community & Population Ecology.; Biomedical Engineering.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

It has been over a decade since the release of the now classic original edition of Murray's Mathematical Biology. Since then mathematical biology has grown at an astonishing rate and is well established as a distinct discipline. Mathematical modeling is now being applied in every major discipli...

Table of Contents:

• Continuous Population Models for Single Species
• Discrete Population Models for a Single Species
• Models for Interacting Populations
• Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination (TSD): Crocodilian Survivorship
• Modelling the Dynamics of Marital Interaction: Divorce Prediction and Marriage Repair
• Reaction Kinetics
• Biological Oscillators and Switches
• BZ Oscillating Reactions
• Perturbed and Coupled Oscillators and Black Holes
• Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: Epidemic Models and AIDS
• Reaction Diffusion, Chemotaxis, and Nonlocal Mechanisms
• Oscillator-Generated Wave Phenomena and Central Pattern Generators
• Biological Waves: Single-Species Models
• Use and Abuse of Fractals.