Overview

This book provides a self-study program on how mathematics, computer science and science can be usefully and seamlessly intertwined. Learning to use ideas from mathematics and computation is essential for understanding approaches to cognitive and biological science. As such the book covers calculus on one variable and two variables and works through a number of interesting first-order ODE models. It clearly uses MatLab in computational exercises where the models cannot be solved by hand, and also helps readers to understand that approximations cause errors – a fact that must always be kept in mind.

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Author:   James K. Peterson
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.212kg
ISBN:  

9789812878724

ISBN 10:   9812878726
Pages:   507
Publication Date:   11 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introductory Remarks.- Viability Selection.- Limits and Basic Smoothness.- Continuity and Derivatives.- Sin, Cos and All That.- Antiderivatives.- Substitutions.- Riemann Integration.- The Logarithm and Its Inverse.- Exponential and Logarithm Function Properties.- Simple Rate Equations.- Simple Protein Models.- Logistics Models.- Function Approximation.- Extreme Values.- Numerical Methods Order One ODEs.- Advanced Protein Models.- Matrices and Vectors.- A Cancer Model.- First Order Multivariable Calculus.- Second Order Multivariable Calculus.- Hamilton’s Rule In Evolutionary Biology.- Final Thoughts.- Background Reading.

Reviews

“The introductory remarks in this book address the concern that many presentations of mathematics focus so heavily on traditional content that the usefulness of mathematics in other fields can be overlooked. … the approach is both demanding and thorough, but the brief exercise sets remain focused on providing opportunities for straightforward practice of the principles at hand. … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates.” (N. W. Schillow, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

The introductory remarks in this book address the concern that many presentations of mathematics focus so heavily on traditional content that the usefulness of mathematics in other fields can be overlooked. ... the approach is both demanding and thorough, but the brief exercise sets remain focused on providing opportunities for straightforward practice of the principles at hand. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. (N. W. Schillow, Choice, Vol. 54 (4), December, 2016)

Author Information

Dr. James Peterson is an Associate Professor in Mathematical Sciences and Biological Sciences at Clemson University, USA. His formal training is in mathematics but he has worked as an aerospace engineer and a software engineer also. He enjoys working on very hard problems that require multiple disciplines to make sense out of and he reads, studies and plays in cutting edge areas a lot as part of his interests.

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