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This module will give you the opportunity to learn how mathematics may be applied to the biosciences in order to quantitatively model biological processes, from molecular  processes at work within living cells up to the behaviour of populations and demographic phenomena. The subject matter has been selected so as to give a wide-ranging overview of the role applied mathematics has to play in the biological disciplines. You will build and analyse models (typically as differential equations or iterated maps) using real world examples from nature. Examples that may be studied within the module include: the population dynamics of insects, animals or fish, competitive  exclusion of species, the behaviour of the chemical reactions kinetics that power living cells and mechanisms of biological pattern formation from reaction-diffusion equations.

 

Pre-requisite module: MTH2003 or equivalent