Mathematics in medicine and the life sciences / Frank C. Hoppensteadt and Charles S. Peskin.
By: Hoppensteadt, Frank C. (Frank Charles) [author.].
Contributor(s): Peskin, Charles S [author.].
Material type: BookSeries: Texts in applied mathematics: 10.Publisher: New York : Springer Verlag, [1992]Copyright date: ©1992Description: xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0387976396 (hardback); 9780387976396 (hardback); 3540976396 .Subject(s): Biomathematics | Population biology -- Mathematics | Physiology -- Mathematics | Biology -- Methods | Mathematics | Biological modelsDDC classification: 570.151Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 570.151 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00069963 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A textbook for a course in mathematical modeling and analysis in population biology and physiology, for pre-medical students with at least one semester of calculus. (c) by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The mathematics of populations: demographics -- Inheritance -- A theory of epidemics -- Biogeography -- The heart and circulation -- Gas exchange in the lungs -- Control of cell volume and the electrical properties of cell membranes -- The renal countercurrent mechanism -- Muscle mechanics -- Biological clocks and mechanisms of neural control.