Mathematical illiteracy impedes progress in biology

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 45, 2012, Pages

  Chitnis, Nakul ^a   Smith, Thomas A ^b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTHOR; BIOLOGY; CITATION ANALYSIS; IMMUNITY; LETTER; MALARIA; MATHEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; ECOLOGY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 84868590278     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213115109     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. Fawcett TW, Higginson AD (2012) Heavy use of equations impedes communication among biologists. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:11735-11739.
2. Smith T, Felger I, Tanner M, Beck HP (1999) Premunition in Plasmodium falciparum infection: insights from the epidemiology of multiple infections. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 93(suppl 1):59-64.