Random Walks in Biology
Book description
This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly…
Why read it?
1 author picked Random Walks in Biology as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Diffusion is rarely taught in physics classes, yet it’s so important for biology.
I love Howard Berg’s first sentence: “Biology is wet and dynamic.” Few authors can make mathematics so engaging and meaningful.
This book is one of those little books that have a big impact. Diffusion is most important at small scales, so get ready to enter the fascinating realm of swimming bacteria and ions moving across cell membranes.
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