Wow! eBook
From Genetics To Mathematics
Author(s): Jacek Miekisz Miroslaw Lachowicz (Editor), Miroslaw Lachowicz
- Publisher: Wspc
- Publication Date: April 20, 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 238 pages
- ISBN-10: B00L8DS9AQ
Book Description
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.
