Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach

Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach
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Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages : 736
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ISBN-10 : 9781470451424
ISBN-13 : 1470451425
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Book Synopsis Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach by : James L. Cornette

Download or read book Calculus for the Life Sciences: A Modeling Approach written by James L. Cornette and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2019-05-25 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calculus for the Life Sciences is an entire reimagining of the standard calculus sequence with the needs of life science students as the fundamental organizing principle. Those needs, according to the National Academy of Science, include: the mathematical concepts of change, modeling, equilibria and stability, structure of a system, interactions among components, data and measurement, visualization, and algorithms. This book addresses, in a deep and significant way, every concept on that list. The book begins with a primer on modeling in the biological realm and biological modeling is the theme and frame for the entire book. The authors build models of bacterial growth, light penetration through a column of water, and dynamics of a colony of mold in the first few pages. In each case there is actual data that needs fitting. In the case of the mold colony that data is a set of photographs of the colony growing on a ruled sheet of graph paper and the students need to make their own approximations. Fundamental questions about the nature of mathematical modeling—trying to approximate a real-world phenomenon with an equation—are all laid out for the students to wrestle with. The authors have produced a beautifully written introduction to the uses of mathematics in the life sciences. The exposition is crystalline, the problems are overwhelmingly from biology and interesting and rich, and the emphasis on modeling is pervasive. An instructor's manual for this title is available electronically to those instructors who have adopted the textbook for classroom use. Please send email to [email protected] for more information. Online question content and interactive step-by-step tutorials are available for this title in WebAssign. WebAssign is a leading provider of online instructional tools for both faculty and students.


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