ABSTRACT
Our three main aims in writing the book were, first, to present a complete set of concepts required for the deterministic theory of chemical and enzyme kinetics, in order to equip students of Biochemistry to formulate their own dynamic models of timedependent metabolic systems. An enabling objective was that a student would become proficient with Mathematica since it is in this ‘environment’ that the book is written. We chose Mathematica because of its huge suite of mathematical functions that can be implemented by simple one-line commands; for its symbolic computational power; and for the large number of other texts that can be used by a student to gain proficiency in the language and to glean ideas for metabolic modelling.
