Mathematics for life scientists Book

Designed to help life science students understand the role mathematics has played in breakthroughs in epidemiology, genetics, statistics, physiology, and other biological areas, this text provides students with a thorough grounding in mathematics, the language, and "the technology of thought" with which these developments are created and controlled. Adler emphasizes understanding what a model is, and recognizing what models say. To be able to recognize a differential equation, interpret the terms, and use the solution is far more important than knowing how to find the solution. These reasoning skills, in addition to familiarity with models in general, are what stay with the motivated student, and are what matter most in the end.