| Mathematical Methods in Medicine Contributor(s): Bellman, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 9971950219 ISBN-13: 9789971950217 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Biostatistics - Mathematics | Applied - Medical | Physiology |
| Series: Modern Applied Mathematics |
| Physical Information: 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is intended for medical students and advanced undergraduates such as physicists and mathematicians with inter-disciplinary interests, biophysicists, medical physicists, applied mathematicians and others who wish to understand medicine in mathematical terms as well as current mathematical applications in physiology and medicine. The mathematical presentation is clear and self-contained.This book, representing 15 years of work at RAND Corporation and USC on chemotherapy, pharmacokinetics and nuclear medicine, attempts to direct medical scientists towards mathematical aspects of problems in medicine. The book begins with an introduction to compartmental models and matrix theory, highlighting the advantages of the approach. Discussions on how questions in observations and testing lead to multi-point boundary value problems are presented. The potentials of the digital computer in the bio-medical field are examined. A new approach -- dynamic programming -- to overcome clinical constraints is covered in detail. The reader should obtain a broad impression of where future research opportunities in the biochemical field lie. |