From Genetics to Mathematics (V79) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812837240)

This volume contains pedagogical and elementary introductions to genetics for mathematicians and physicists as well as to mathematical models and techniques of population dynamics. It also offers a physicist's perspective on modeling biological processes.Each chapter starts with an overview followed by the recent results obtained by authors. Lectures are self-contained and are devoted to various phenomena such as the evolution of the genetic code and genomes, age-structured populations, demography, sympatric speciation, the Penna model, Lotka-Volterra and other predator-prey models, evolutionary models of ecosystems, extinctions of species, and the origin and development of language. Authors analyze their models from the computational and mathematical points of view.

Author: Lachowicz Miroslaw
ISBN-10: 9812837248
ISBN-13: 9789812837240
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.12w x 0.84d