Books
A Survey of Models for Tumor/lmmune System Dynamics.
(Editors: John Adam & Nicola Bellomo: Birkhauser Press, 1997.)
BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists
Summary: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10497.html?onpi_newsdoc09102002
Mathematics in Nature: Modeling Patterns in the Natural World,
John A. Adam, Ph.D., November 2003 | $39.50 / £26.95 | ISBN: 0-691-11429-3,
448 pp. | 6 x 9 | 24 color illus. 84 line illus. 9 tables. Publisher Site: http://www.pup.princeton.edu/titles/7686.html
Summary: http://www.pup.princeton.edu/titles/7686.html
A Course in Mathematical Biology: Quantitative Modeling with Mathematical & Computational Methods, G. de Vries, T. Hillen, M. Lewis, J. Mueller, and B. Schoenfisch (authors). SIAM, Philladelphia, 2006.
This textbook is geared to higher-level undergraduate students. It offers an introduction to the many aspects of mathematical modeling, including:
- model development using difference equations, differential equations, partial differential equations, stochastic models and cellular automata
- model analysis, including stability, bifurcations, asymptotics
- computation in form of a self-guided Maple tutorial (note: this tutorial can be adapted to other software packages such as Mathematica or Matlab)
- parameter estimation, including likelihood methods and Akaike Information Criterion
- problem solving, based upon a large number of biologically relevant exercise problems through out the text
- project work from a selection of 25 open-ended research problems from epidemiology, population dynamics, and physiology
Book webpage: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~thillen/book-page.html
SIAM bookpage: http://www.ec-securehost.com/SIAM/MM12.html