American Mathematical Monthly Showcases Mathematical Biology

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Newswise Maybe you dont usually read papers about microorganism motility in fluids. Or phylogenetics. Or cancer modeling. This November, however, youll want to.

Three guest editorsElizabeth Allman (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Fred Adler (University of Utah), and Lisette de Pillis (Harvey Mudd College)have assembled for your edification a special November issue of the American Mathematical Monthly: seven articles on topics at the intersection of mathematics and biology.

While mathematical biology is a rapidly growing research area, the Monthly receives few math-bio manuscripts. A special issue, thought Monthly editor Scott Chapman, would be an excellent means of introducing the journals readership to the burgeoning field.

Allman, Adler, and de Pilliswho all taught at the Park City Mathematics Institutes 2005 summer school in mathematical biologycollected papers that reflect the excitement and diversity of a field that applies mathematical methods and curiosity to everything from finding control methods for AIDS to reconstructing the evolutionary relationships between species.

Authors address computational neuroscience, animal territory pattern formation, gene regulatory networks, and synthetic biology.

The editors have high expectations for their opus. "Whatever your area of mathematical expertise," they write in their introduction, "we hope that you find this special issue in mathematical biology provocative and informative, like a good novelhard to put down initially and then awarded a special place on your bookshelf for future examination."

About The American Mathematical Monthly: a href="http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/american-mathematical-monthly" target="_blank">The American Mathematical Monthly publishes articles, notes, and other features about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests and abilities. The MAA publishes 10 issues of the Monthly per year.

About MAA: The Mathematical Association of America is the largest professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Formed in 1915, the association members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry who are interested in the mathematical sciences.

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American Mathematical Monthly Showcases Mathematical Biology