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An Introduction to Mathematical Biology
Authors: Gialelis, Nikolaos
Bitsouni, Vasiliki
Stratis, Ioannis
Reviewer: Kavallaris, Nikos
Subject: MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE > MATHEMATICS
MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Keywords:
Mathematical Biology
Mathematical Modelling
Applied Mathematics
Differential Equations
Dynamical Systems
Ecology
Epidemiology
Biochemical Kinetics
Diffusion
Ordinary Differential Equation
ODE
Partial Differential Equation
PDE
Description:
Abstract:
“Mathematics is Biology’s Next Microscope, Only Better; Biology is Mathematics’ Next Physics, Only Better” is the title of a paper by J. E. Cohen, that gives a particularly successful illustration of the impressive development of Mathematical Biology in the 21st century. Mathematics provides the appropriate means to deal with complex biological systems at various levels of organization and is thus extremely effective (also) in Biology. This book aims to present basic and more advanced methods of Differential Equations (Ordinary (ODE) and Partial (PDE)), Dynamical Systems and Applied Mathematics through applications in Biology. Elements of the following areas of Mathematical Biology are presented: Ecology, Epidemiology, Biochemical Kinetics and Diffusion. In the first part (Ecology), the following models are introduced and studied: exponential (continuous and discrete), logistic (without and with the Allee effect), multi-population (population interaction), Lotka-Volterra (basic, first and second variant of). In the second part (Epidemiology), dynamic epidemiological compartmental models are introduced and studied, and the SIR model (without and with demographic terms) is also studied. In the third part (Biochemical Kinetics), the basic elements of chemical reaction theory, the basic model of enzyme catalysis, the standard and the inverse quasi-steady state hypotheses, and various models of autocatalysis are introduced and studied. In the fourth part (Diffusion) the basic models (exponential and logistic) with a diffusion term and the concept of the pattern index are introduced and studied. The necessary mathematical background is presented and developed at the end of each chapter, after the study of the biological problem and includes: elements of the basic theory of Initial Value Problems (IVPs) for ODEs, discretization of IVPs, stability analysis (linearization, Lyapunov functions, periodic solutions of autonomous IVPs), bifurcation, limit cycles and Hopf bifurcation, basic Poincaré-Bendixson theory, introduction to the concept of non-dimensionalization, locally approximate solutions and their matching, Initial-Boundary Value Problems (IBVPs) for second-order PDEs, degenerate and standard IBVPs, maximum/minimum principle, Fourier series, Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems, stationary solutions and their stability, the autonomous standard IBVP for the semilinear diffusion equation and the dependence of stationary solutions on parameters.
Linguistic Editors: Gialelis, Nikolaos
Bitsouni, Vasiliki
Stratis, Ioannis
Paxinou, Evgenia
Technical Editors: Gialelis, Nikolaos
Bitsouni, Vasiliki
Stratis, Ioannis
Graphic Editors: Gialelis, Nikolaos
Bitsouni, Vasiliki
Stratis, Ioannis
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 10-05-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-5726-95-9
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-225
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/9397
Bibliographic Reference: Gialelis, N., Bitsouni, V., & Stratis, I. (2023). An Introduction to Mathematical Biology [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-225
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Basic concepts of Ordinary Differential Equations
2. Ecology I
3. Ecology II
4. Ecology III
5. Ecology IV
6. Ecology V
7. Epidemiology I
8. Epidemiology II
9. Biochemical Kinetics I
10. Biochemical Kinetics II
11. Basic concepts of Partial Differential Equations
12. Diffusion I
13. Diffusion II
14. Diffusion III
15. Directions for further study
Number of pages 354
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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