Mathematical Methods In Medicine: 1 (Series In Modern Applied Mathematics) - Softcover

Bellman, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9971950219 ISBN 13: 9789971950217

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

This book is intended for medical students and advanced undergraduates such as physicists and mathematicians with inter-disciplinary interests, biophysicists, medical physicists, applied mathematicians and others who wish to understand medicine in mathematical terms as well as current mathematical applications in physiology and medicine. The mathematical presentation is clear and self-contained.This book, representing 15 years of work at RAND Corporation and USC on chemotherapy, pharmacokinetics and nuclear medicine, attempts to direct medical scientists towards mathematical aspects of problems in medicine. The book begins with an introduction to compartmental models and matrix theory, highlighting the advantages of the approach. Discussions on how questions in observations and testing lead to multi-point boundary value problems are presented. The potentials of the digital computer in the bio-medical field are examined. A new approach ― dynamic programming ― to overcome clinical constraints is covered in detail. The reader should obtain a broad impression of where future research opportunities in the biochemical field lie.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9971950219
• ISBN 13: 9789971950217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268