Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Biology

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5659, 2004, Pages 790-793

  May, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PHYSICS;

MATHEMATICAL THEORY; NATURAL CONSTANTS;

BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICS;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; BIOPHYSICS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0842309879     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1094442     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. R. A. Fisher. The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (Dover [reprint]. New York, 1958).
2. G. H. Hardy, Science 28, 49 (1908).
3. For a more full discussion see R. M. Anderson and R. M. May [Infectious Diseases of Humans (Oxford Univ. Press, 1991), chap. 11].
4. J. Bongaarts, Stat. Med. 8, 103 (1989).
5. R. MacArthur, Geographical Ecology (Harper & Row, New York, 1972).
6. For further discussion, see G. Farmelo (Ed.) [It Must be Beautiful: Great Equations of Modern Science (Granta, London, 2002), pp. 212-229] and (7).
7. J. Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (Viking, New York, 1987).
8. M. A. Nowak, R. M. May, Virus Dynamics: Mathematical Principles of Immunology and Virology (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2000).
9. N. Goldenfield, L. P. Kadanoff, Science 284, 87 (1999).
10. M. J. Keeling et al., Nature 421, 136 (2003).
11. I thank many colleagues, particularly S. Levin, A. Grafen, D. Rubenstein, and M. Stumpf for helpful conversations, and the Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation for their support.