Dynamics of Biological Systems (Chapman & Hall/Crc Mathematical and Computational Biology Series: Aims and Scopes) - Hardcover

Buch 45 von 50: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computational Biology Series

Small, Michael

 
9781439853368: Dynamics of Biological Systems (Chapman & Hall/Crc Mathematical and Computational Biology Series: Aims and Scopes)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1439853363 ISBN 13: 9781439853368
Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

From the spontaneous rapid firing of cortical neurons to the spatial diffusion of disease epidemics, biological systems exhibit rich dynamic behaviour over a vast range of time and space scales. Unifying many of these diverse phenomena, Dynamics of Biological Systems provides the computational and mathematical platform from which to understand the underlying processes of the phenomena.

Through an extensive tour of various biological systems, the text introduces computational methods for simulating spatial diffusion processes in excitable media, such as the human heart, as well as mathematical tools for dealing with systems of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations, such as neuronal activation and disease diffusion. The mathematical models and computer simulations offer insight into the dynamics of temporal and spatial biological systems, including cardiac pacemakers, artificial electrical defibrillation, pandemics, pattern formation, flocking behaviour, the interaction of autonomous agents, and hierarchical and structured network topologies. Tools from complex systems and complex networks are also presented for dealing with real phenomenological systems.

With exercises and projects in each chapter, this classroom-tested text shows students how to apply a variety of mathematical and computational techniques to model and analyze the temporal and spatial phenomena of biological systems. MATLAB® implementations of algorithms and case studies are available on the author’s website.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Small is an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He has served as a diplomat in Malaysia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Mexico and was Canadian ambassador to Cuba from 2000 to 2003. He is also a fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

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Verlag
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1439853363
ISBN 13 
9781439853368
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
262
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