1st Edition
Mathematics for Biological Scientists
1. Quantities and Units
2. Numbers and Equations
3. Tables, Graphs and Functions
4. Shapes, Waves and Trigonometry
5. Differentiation
6. Integration
7. Calculus: Expanding the Toolkit
8. The Calculus of Growth and Decay Processes
9. Descriptive Statistics and Data Display
10. Probability
11. Statistical Inference
12. Biological Modeling
Presenting Your Work
End of Chapter Questions
Answers to End of Chapter Questions
Biography
Steve Hladky is a Reader in Membrane Pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. He was Secretary of the Department's teaching committee for 17 years, during which time he coordinated the teaching in the Department.
Bill Broadhurst is Assistant Director of Research in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge.
Mike Aitken is a University Lecturer and the Undergraduate Teaching Director in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge.
This book should help remind students that there can be concrete applications for mathematics.
—The Quarterly Review of Biology, Volume 85, December 2010...pitched at a good level ... enough detail to interest the more able/interested student, while the basic mathematics was introduced in an intuitive and engaging manner that would enable understanding for students with less mathematical background. The use of the text boxes and highlight boxes was extremely useful, presenting critical information in a manner that was easy to follow. Moreover, these gave the book the 'feel' of a biological textbook, rather than a more traditional mathematical textbook.
—Kevin Painter, Heriot-Watt University
