Mathematics and Life Sciences: Possibilities, Interlasements and Limits (de Gruyter Series in Mathematics and Life Sciences): 1 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110273721 ISBN 13: 9783110273724

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2012

Synopsis

The book provides a unique collection of in-depth mathematical, statistical, and modeling methods and techniques for life sciences, as well as their applications in a number of areas within life sciences. The book provides also with a range of new ideas that represent emerging frontiers in life sciences where the application of such quantitative methods and techniques is becoming increasingly important.

Many areas within life sciences are becoming increasingly quantitative and the progress in those areas will be more and more dependent on the successful development of advanced mathematical, statistical and modelling methodologies and techniques. The state-of-the-art developments in such methodologies and techniques are scattered throughout research journals and hardly accessible to the practitioners in those areas. This book identifies a number of frontier areas where such methodologies and techniques have recently been developed and are to be published here for the first time, bringing substantial potential benefit to a range of applications in life sciences. In addition, the book contains several state-of-the-art surveys at the interface of mathematics and life sciences that would benefit a larger interdisciplinary community.

It is aimed at researchers in academia, practitioners and graduate students who want to foster interdisciplinary collaborations required to meet the challenges at the interface of modern life sciences and mathematics.

About this title

About the Author

Alexandra V. Antoniouk, Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; Roderick V. N. Melnik, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

From the Back Cover

This book contains 12 state-of-the-art surveys and research articles at the interface of mathematics and life sciences. It is based on selected invited contributions by researchers from Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. The book presents a broad spectrum of mathematical, statistical and computational methods important in life sciences, as well as some representative examples of modern problems from life sciences where the development of new mathematical approaches is required. After an introductory chapter, each remaining chapter stands alone as a survey or in-depth research within a specific area, exploring the interface of mathematics and life sciences. The main areas covered in this book are:

• Mathematical and statistical modelling of biological systems
• Probabilistic models for nonlinear processes and biological dynamics
• New results in mathematical epidemiology and modelling dynamics of infectious diseases
• Mathematical analysis of PDE-based models and applications in cell biology
• Axiomatic modelling in life sciences with case studies for virus-immune system and oncolytic virus dynamics
• Theory, applications, and control of nonlinear PDEs in life sciences
• Mathematical models of pattern formation and their applications in developmental biology
• Modeling the dynamics of genetic mechanisms, pattern formation, and the "genetics of geometry"
• Statistical modeling in life sciences and direct measurements
• Design and development of experiments for life science applications
• Mathematical biomedicine and modelling avascular tumour growth

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110273721
• ISBN 13: 9783110273724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Antoniouk Alexandra V., Melnik Roderick V. N.