Customer Reviews

If you are an evolutinary biologist or ecologist and you want to get into modelling buy this book. - By: Andrew Dalby, 29 Nov 2008
This is an excellent & very comprehensive text writtenin a biologist friendly style but that still delivers almost all of the maths you are ever likely to needin mathematical biology.

Books like Edelstein-Keshet & Murray are written from a much more mathematical background & tend to use notation & concepts that are hard for non-mathematicians to grasp. Maths phobia is a serious barrier to biologists entering the field, where we need biological as well as mathematical insight.

This book introduces the mathemtical concepts as they are needed by way of a series of primers. The rest of the book is filled with examples that concentrate on the biology rather than the mathematical techniques. There are also chapters that explain the methods of model building & the reasoning behind model building.

For me this is a perfect graduate level or third year undergraduate level text.