Quantitative Elements of General Biology

A Dynamical Systems Approach

Ivan Maly (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VII, 200 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-79148-3 (ISBN)

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This monograph sketches out a broad spectrum of problems (from evolution and metabolism to morphogenesis and biogeographical dynamics) whose solution has been impacted by mathematical models. Each of the selected examples has led to the recognition-and set direction to further study-of certain fundamental but unintuitive properties of biological systems, such as the making and breaking of specific symmetries that underlie morphogenesis. Whether they are long-established or only recently accepted, these models are selected for being thought-provoking and illuminating both the achievements and the gaps in our current understanding of the given area of biology. The selection of models is also meant to bring to the fore the existing degree of unity in the quantitative approach to diverse general-biological questions and in the systems-level properties that are discovered across the levels of biological organization. It is the thesis of this book that further cultivation of such unity is away forward as we progress toward a general theory of living matter.

This is an ideal book for students (in the broadest sense) of biology who wish to learn from this attempt to present the exemplary models, their methodological lessons, and the outline of a unified theory of living matter that is now beginning to emerge. In addition to a doctoral student preparing for quantitative biology research, this reader could also be an interdisciplinary scientist transitioning to biology. The latter-for example, a physicist or an engineer-may be comfortable with the mathematical apparatus and prepared to quickly enter the intended area of work, but desires a broader foundation in biology from the quantitative perspective.

Ivan Maly earned his PhD in the Life Sciences from Northwestern University. After a research stint in the Biological Engineering Division at MIT, he became a founding member of the Department of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Now at the State University of New York, he continues his experimental and computational cell-biological research while maintaining a broad interest in quantitative biology and problems of knowledge integration. His earlier books are Systems Biology (Springer, 2009) and Systems Biomechanics of the Cell (Springer, 2013).

1. Introduction.- 2. Darwinian dynamics.- 3. Homeostasis.- 4. Cellular organization.- 5. Multicellular form and movement.- 6. Inter-species and planetary-scale dynamics.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	VII, 200 p. 62 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	326 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Schlagworte	Quantitative elements Cellular organization • Quantitative elements Darwinian dynamics • Quantitative elements general biology • Quantitative elements Homeostasis • Quantitative elements Inter-species • Quantitative elements Multicellular form and movement • Quantitative elements planetary dynamics
ISBN-10	3-030-79148-3 / 3030791483
ISBN-13	978-3-030-79148-3 / 9783030791483
Zustand	Neuware