Calculating the Secrets of Life: Applications of the Mathematical Sciences in Molecular Biology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309075022)

As researchers have pursued biology's secrets to the molecular level, mathematical and computer sciences have played an increasingly important role--in genome mapping, population genetics, and even the controversial search for "Eve," hypothetical mother of the human race.

In this first-ever survey of the partnership between the two fields, leading experts look at how mathematical research and methods have made possible important discoveries in biology.

The volume explores how differential geometry, topology, and differential mechanics have allowed researchers to "wind" and "unwind" DNA's double helix to understand the phenomenon of supercoiling. It explains how mathematical tools are revealing the workings of enzymes and proteins. And it describes how mathematicians are detecting echoes from the origin of life by applying stochastic and statistical theory to the study of DNA sequences.

This informative and motivational book will be of interest to researchers, research administrators, and educators and students in mathematics, computer sciences, and biology.

Author: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sci,Commission on Physical Sciences Mathemat
ISBN-10: 0309075025
ISBN-13: 9780309075022
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1995
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d