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Biology by Numbers
An Encouragement to Quantitative Thinking
Taschenbuch von Richard Francis Burton
Sprache: Englisch

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A practical undergraduate textbook for maths-shy biology students showing how basic maths reveals important insights.
A practical undergraduate textbook for maths-shy biology students showing how basic maths reveals important insights.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; A guide to the book; 1. Putting two and two together; 2. Units, formulae and the use of old envelopes: confronting some obstacles to quantitative thinking; 3. Aspects of energy metabolism; 4. Getting things in proportion; 5. Perilous percentages, dangerous ratios; 6. Building a trophic pyramid; 7. Sodium in animals and plants; 8. Exchanges of water and carbon dioxide; 9. A geometric series; 10. Introduction to logarithms; 11. Bringing logarithms to life; 12. Exponential relationships; 13. Aspects of allometry; 14. More on allometry, and on quantitative patterns in nature; 15. How the abundance of food affects rates of feeding; 16. The characterization of trees and other branching systems; 17. Epilogue; References; Notes; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521576987
ISBN-10: 0521576989
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Burton, Richard Francis
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Francis Burton
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2007
Gewicht: 0,421 kg
preigu-id: 106844917
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; A guide to the book; 1. Putting two and two together; 2. Units, formulae and the use of old envelopes: confronting some obstacles to quantitative thinking; 3. Aspects of energy metabolism; 4. Getting things in proportion; 5. Perilous percentages, dangerous ratios; 6. Building a trophic pyramid; 7. Sodium in animals and plants; 8. Exchanges of water and carbon dioxide; 9. A geometric series; 10. Introduction to logarithms; 11. Bringing logarithms to life; 12. Exponential relationships; 13. Aspects of allometry; 14. More on allometry, and on quantitative patterns in nature; 15. How the abundance of food affects rates of feeding; 16. The characterization of trees and other branching systems; 17. Epilogue; References; Notes; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521576987
ISBN-10: 0521576989
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Burton, Richard Francis
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Francis Burton
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2007
Gewicht: 0,421 kg
preigu-id: 106844917
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