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Biology by Numbers: An Encouragement to Quantitative Thinking Book
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Blackwell
A practical undergraduate textbook for maths-shy biology students showing how basic maths reveals important insights. Biologists are notoriously reticent about using mathematics. This textbook is both an introduction to quantitative biology and a...
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Book Description
Biology students are notoriously reluctant to use mathematics, yet a simple grasp of numbers reveals real insights into a whole range of biological phenomena. In this introductory text Richard Burton fosters a sense of the importance of maths to biology using a wealth of examples while assuming minimal maths ability. Questions and calculations encourage active participation, and the structure shows how the same reasoning aids the understanding of a range of biological problems. Aimed at beginning undergraduates but of great value to all the number-shy, including graduate students.
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Product Description
This textbook is both an introduction to quantitative biology and a guide for the number-shy. Richard Burton fosters a sense of the fundamental importance and usefulness of mathematical principles in biology, with a fascinating range of examples. The book is geared toward the nonmathematician, and covers the basics as well as various more advanced topics from many diverse biological disciplines. Questions and calculations encourage active participation without holding up the casual reader. A key feature is the structure of the book. Rather than building it around biological disciplines, Dr. Burton emphasizes the common ways of reasoning used in areas as diverse as insect and population growth, seed mortality, and sensory response (to mention a few that use logarithms).
- 0521576989
- 9780521576987
- Richard F. Burton
- 26 February 1998
- Cambridge University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 256
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