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  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1977

Mathematics and the Life Sciences

Selected Lectures, Canadian Mathematical Congress, August 1975

Editors:

  1. David E. Matthews

    1. Department of Statistics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics (LNBM, volume 18)

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-VII
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  2. Problems of Statistical Inference in the Life Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    3. Conditional Inference is not Inefficient

      • G. A. Barnard
      Pages 60-65

  3. Bioassay

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 66-66
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    2. Lecture I: General Structures and Theory

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 67-86

    3. Lecture II: Radioligand Assays

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 87-100

    4. Lecture III: Combination of Assay Results

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 101-116

    5. Lecture IV: The Need for Contemporary Comparisons

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 117-136

    6. Lecture V: Assays of Antiserum Activity

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 137-151

  4. Qualitative Analysis of Complex Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 152-152
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    2. Qualitative Analysis of Complex Systems

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 153-170

    3. The Characteristic Equation and Stability

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 171-179

    4. Moving Equilibria

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 180-184

    5. Characteristic Vectors

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 185-191

    6. Some Simplifications

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 192-195

    7. Responses to Parameter Change

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 196-199

  5. Mathematical Models in Population Biology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 200-200
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    2. Evolution and the Theory of Games

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 201-212

    3. Ecological Models in Evolutionary Time

      • David E. Matthews
      Pages 213-221
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About this book

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.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

    David E. Matthews

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mathematics and the Life Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: Selected Lectures, Canadian Mathematical Congress, August 1975

  • Editors: David E. Matthews

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93067-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-08351-1Published: 01 September 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-93067-6Published: 13 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0341-633X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9981

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 386

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Biology

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