From Genetics to Mathematics
Author | : Miroslaw Lachowicz |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789812837257 |
ISBN-13 | : 9812837256 |
Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.