Mathematical Biology: A Very Short Introduction

Why are English Premier League football shirt patterns very similar to animal coat markings? And what do invasive species have in common with cancer cells in the body? Mathematical biology develops models which answer these questions, as they are applied to processes from the spread of a gene in a population, to predator-prey dynamics in an ecosystem, to the growth of tumors.

In this Very Short Introduction Philip K. Maini describes the art of modeling, what it is, why we do it, and illustra...