Book:Rafael Lahoz-Beltra/The Mathematics of Life

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Rafael Lahoz-Beltra: The Mathematics of Life: Numbers in biology and ecology

Published $\text {2017}$, National Geographic

ISBN 978-84-473-8934-6


National Geographic "Our Mathematical World" series: $28$


Contents

Preface


Chapter 1. Mathematical Biology: A Historical Overview
Chapter 2. Life: A Changing Phenomenon
Chapter 3. Microbiology Succumbs to Chaos
Chapter 4. Playing Sudoku with Life
Chapter 5. Magnitudes with Direction: Vectors in Biomechanics, Neural Networks and Simultaneous Equations
Chapter 6. Ecology and Mathematics: A Marriage of Convenience


Appendix: The Magic of Complex Numbers
Bibliography
Index