Ebook: Mathematics and the Life Sciences: Selected Lectures, Canadian Mathematical Congress, August 1975
- Tags: Mathematical and Computational Biology
- Series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics 18
- Year: 1977
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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For two weeks in August, 1975 more than 140 mathematicians and other scientists gathered at the Universite de Sherbrooke. The occasion was the 15th Biennial Seminar of the Canadian Mathematical Congress, entitled Mathematics and the Life Sciences. Participants in this inter disciplinary gathering included researchers and graduate students in mathematics, seven different areas of biological science, physics, chemistry and medical science. Geographically, those present came from the United States and the United Kingdom as well as from academic departments and government agencies scattered across Canada. In choosing this particular interdisciplinary topic the programme committee had two chief objectives. These were to promote Canadian research in mathematical problems of the life sciences, and to encourage co-operation and exchanges between mathematical scientists" biologists and medical re searchers. To accomplish these objective the committee assembled a stim ulating programme of lectures and talks. Six principal lecturers each delivered a series of five one-hour lectures in which various aspects of the interaction between mathematics and the life sciences were considered. In addition researchers working in the areas of health, population biology, physiology and development biology and disease processes were invited to give more than 25 hours of complementary talks.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages N1-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Problems of Statistical Inference in the Life Sciences....Pages 2-59
Conditional Inference is not Inefficient....Pages 60-65
Front Matter....Pages 66-66
Lecture I: General Structures and Theory....Pages 67-86
Lecture II: Radioligand Assays....Pages 87-100
Lecture III: Combination of Assay Results....Pages 101-116
Lecture IV: The Need for Contemporary Comparisons....Pages 117-136
Lecture V: Assays of Antiserum Activity....Pages 137-151
Front Matter....Pages 152-152
Qualitative Analysis of Complex Systems....Pages 153-170
The Characteristic Equation and Stability....Pages 171-179
Moving Equilibria....Pages 180-184
Characteristic Vectors....Pages 185-191
Some Simplifications....Pages 192-195
Responses to Parameter Change....Pages 196-199
Front Matter....Pages 200-200
Evolution and the Theory of Games....Pages 201-212
Ecological Models in Evolutionary Time....Pages 213-221
Front Matter....Pages 222-222
The Generation and Recognition of Patterns in Biological Systems....Pages 223-341
Front Matter....Pages 342-342
Catastrophe Theory — A Geometrical Introduction....Pages 343-358
Cellular Coordination in Embryogenesis: Some Theoretical Considerations....Pages 359-373
Models of the Nerve Impulse....Pages 374-385
Content:
Front Matter....Pages N1-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Problems of Statistical Inference in the Life Sciences....Pages 2-59
Conditional Inference is not Inefficient....Pages 60-65
Front Matter....Pages 66-66
Lecture I: General Structures and Theory....Pages 67-86
Lecture II: Radioligand Assays....Pages 87-100
Lecture III: Combination of Assay Results....Pages 101-116
Lecture IV: The Need for Contemporary Comparisons....Pages 117-136
Lecture V: Assays of Antiserum Activity....Pages 137-151
Front Matter....Pages 152-152
Qualitative Analysis of Complex Systems....Pages 153-170
The Characteristic Equation and Stability....Pages 171-179
Moving Equilibria....Pages 180-184
Characteristic Vectors....Pages 185-191
Some Simplifications....Pages 192-195
Responses to Parameter Change....Pages 196-199
Front Matter....Pages 200-200
Evolution and the Theory of Games....Pages 201-212
Ecological Models in Evolutionary Time....Pages 213-221
Front Matter....Pages 222-222
The Generation and Recognition of Patterns in Biological Systems....Pages 223-341
Front Matter....Pages 342-342
Catastrophe Theory — A Geometrical Introduction....Pages 343-358
Cellular Coordination in Embryogenesis: Some Theoretical Considerations....Pages 359-373
Models of the Nerve Impulse....Pages 374-385
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