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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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