ABSTRACT

Mathematics for Biological Scientists is a new undergraduate textbook which covers the mathematics necessary for biology students to understand, interpret and discuss biological questions.

The book's twelve chapters are organized into four themes. The first theme covers the basic concepts of mathematics in biology, discussing the mathematics used in biological quantities, processes and structures. The second theme, calculus, extends the language of mathematics to describe change. The third theme is probability and statistics, where the uncertainty and variation encountered in real biological data is described. The fourth theme is explored briefly in the final chapter of the book, which is to show how the 'tools' developed in the first few chapters are used within biology to develop models of biological processes.

Mathematics for Biological Scientists fully integrates mathematics and biology with the use of colour illustrations and photographs to provide an engaging and informative approach to the subject of mathematics and statistics within biological science.

 

 

chapter 1|31 pages

Quantities and Units

chapter 2|34 pages

Numbers and Equations

chapter 3|26 pages

Tables, Graphs, and Functions

chapter 4|22 pages

Shapes, Waves, and Trigonometry

chapter 5|32 pages

Differentiation

chapter 6|31 pages

Integration

chapter 7|30 pages

Calculus: Expanding the Toolkit

chapter 8|28 pages

The Calculus of Growth and Decay Processes

chapter 9|40 pages

Descriptive Statistics and Data Display

chapter 10|43 pages

Probability

chapter 11|53 pages

Statistical Inference

chapter 12|39 pages

Biological Modeling