ABSTRACT
Leonardo da Vinci once suggested, “No human enquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration”. Mathematics provides inroads to almost any scientific discipline. Biology is not an exception. Mathematical biology or theoretical biology integrates mathematics with biology. It is an interdisciplinary research area with applicability in biology, medicine and biotechnology. In Mathematical Biology or biomathematics the stress is on mathematics. Mathematical concepts are applied to biological problems. On the other hand, in Theoretical Biology, more emphasis is on biological aspects of the problem. This interdisciplinary field needs practitioners that can speak each other’s language. Biology departments at research universities and medical schools routinely carry out interdisciplinary projects that involve mathematicians, physicists, statisticians, and computational scientists. And mathematics departments frequently engage professors whose main expertise is in the analysis of biological problems. Mathematical biology is a fast growing area to become the science of the 21st century.
