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《医学和生命科学中的数学问题(英文版)》
作者:F.C.Hoppensteadt,C.S.Peskin 编
出版社:世界图书出版公司 出版日期:1997-9-1
ISBN:7506233045 定价:49元
    内容提要

    Mathematical Biology is the study of medicine and the life sciences that uses mathematical models to help predict and interpret what we observe. This book describes several major contributions that have been made to population biology and to physiology by such theoretical work. We have tried to keep the presentation brief to keep the price of the book as reasonable as possible, and to ensure that the topics are presented at a level that is accessible to a wide audience. Each topic could serve as a launching point for more advanced study, and suitable references are suggested to help with this. If the underlying mathematics is understood for these basic examples. then mathematical aspects of more advanced life science preblems will be within reach.

    目录

    Series Preface

    Preface

    Introduction

    1 The Mathematics of Populations: Demographics

    1.1. Geometric Population Growth

    1.1.1. Growth of Bacterial Cultures

    1.1.2. Least-Squares Estimation of the Growth Rate

    1.1.3. Growth of Human Populations

    1.1.4. Infinitesimal Sampling Intervals and Doubling Times

    1.2. Geometric Growth in a Population Stratified by Age

    1.2.1. Fibonacci's Rabbit Population

    1.2.2. Euler's Renewal Equations

    1.2.3. Age Structure in Human Popnlations

    1.3. The Limits of Growth

    1.3.1. Verhulst's Model

    1.3.2. Predator Satiation

    1.3.3. Chaos

    1.3.4. Infimtesimal Sampling Intervals ina Limiting Environment

    1.4. Age Structure of Populations near

    the Limits of Growth

    1.5. Harvesting

    1.6. Summary

    1.7. Annotated References

    Exercises

    2 Inheritance

    2.1. Mendel's Laws

    2.2. Bacterial Genetics: Plasmids

    2.3. Genetics in Small Populations of Human.

    2.4. The Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

    2.5. Summary

    2.6. Annotated References

    Exercises

    3 A Theory of Epidemics

    3.1. Spread of Infection within a Family

    3.2. The Threshold of an Epidemic

    3.3. Calculation of the Severity of an Epidemic

    3.4. Summary

    3.5. Annotated References

    Exercises

    4 Biogeography

    4.1. TheGameofLife.

    4.2. Random Walks

    4.3. The Diffusion Apprcndmation

    4.4. The Growth of Bacteria on Plates

    4.5. Another View of Random Walks

    4.6. Summary

    4.7. Annotated References

    Exercises

    5 The Heart and Circulation

    5.1. Plan of the Circulation

    5.2. Volume, Flow, and Pressure

    5.3. Resistance and Compliance Vessels

    5.4. The Heart as a Pair of Pumps

    5.5. Mathematical Model of the Uncontrolled Circulation

    5.6. Balancing the Two Sides of the Heart andthe Two Circulations

    5.7. Cardiac Output and Arterial Blood Pressure:The Need for Extemal Circulatory Control Mechanisms

    5.8. Neural Control: The Baroreceptor Loop

    5.9. Autoregulation

    5.10. Changes in the Circulation Occurring at Birth

    5.11. Dynamics of the Arterial Pulse

    5.12. Annotated References,Exercises

    6 Gas Exchange in the Lungs

    6.1. The Ideal Gas Law and the Solubility of Gases

    6.2. The Equations of Gas Transport in One Alveolus.

    6.3. Gas Transport in the Lung

    6.4. Optimal Gas TRansport

    6.5. Mean Alveolar and Arterial Partial Pressures

    6.6. Transport of O2

    6.7. Annotated References

    Exercises

    7 Control of Cell Volume anathe Electrical Properties of Cell Membranes

    7.1. Osmotic Pressure and the Work of Concentration

    7.2. A Simple Model of Cell Volume Control

    7.3. The Movement of lons across Cell Membranes

    7.4. Control of Cell Volume: The Interaction ofElectrical and Osmotic Effects

    7.5. Transient Changes in Membrane Potential:A Signaling Mechanism in Nerve and Muscle

    7.6. Annotated References

    Exercises

    8 The Renal Countercurrent Mechanism

    8.1. The Nephron

    8.2. Differential Equations of Na+ and H2o Transportalong the Renal Tubules

    8.3. The Loop of Henle

    8.4. The Juxtaglomerular Apparatus andthe Renin-Angiotensin System

    8.5. The Distal Tubule and Collecting Duct:Concentrating and Diluting Modes

    8.6. Remarks on the Significance ofthe Juxtaglomerular Apparatus

    8.7. Annotated References

    Exercises

    9 Muscle Mechanics

    9.1. The Force-Velocity Curve

    9.2. Cross-Bridge Dynamics

    9.3. Annotated References

    Exercises

    10 Biological Clocks and Mechanismsof Neural Control

    10.1. A Theory of Clocks

    10.1.1.The Clock on the Wall

    10.1.2. Pbase Resetting: A Rubber Handed CIock

    10.1.3. Modulated Clocks

    10.2. Nerve Cell Membranes

    10.2.1. Cell Membrane Potential

    10.2.2. Guttman's Experiments

    10.3. VCON: A Voltage Controlled Oscillator Neuron

    10.3.1. Voltage Controlled Oscillators

    10.3.2. Phase Comparators and a Model Synapse.

    10.3.3. VCON: A Model Spike Generator

    10.3.4. Phase Locking Properties of a VCON

    10.4. Neural Control Networks

    10.4.1. Network Nqtation

    10.4.2. von Euler's Respiration Control Mechanism.

    10.5. Summary

    10.6. Annotated References

    Exercises

    Answers for Selected Exercises

    Index