From the spontaneous rapid firing of cortical neurons to the spatial diffusion of disease epidemics, biological systems exhibit rich dynamic behaviour over a vast range of time and space scales. Unifying many of these diverse phenomena, Dynamics of Biological Systems provides the computational and mathematical platform from which to understand the
Biography
Michael Small is a professor of mathematical modelling and director of the Phenomics and Bioinformatics Research Centre in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of South Australia (as of October 2011). He was previously an associate professor in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include nonlinear time series, chaos, and complex systems.
