这本书的评价还要更好：http://books.google.com/books?id=VmCQ28GWqE0C 《数学生物学：空间模型与生物医学应用》（Mathematical Biology: Spatial models and biomedical applications），作者 James Dickson Murray。亚马逊链接：http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Biology-Introduction-Inte... 数学方法差异很大，取决于……
This book has even better reviews: http://books.google.com/books?id=VmCQ28GWqE0C Mathematical Biology: Spatial models and biomedical applications By James Dickson Murray. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Biology-Introduction-Inte... Mathematical approaches differ greatly depending on the…
……纯手算把 ODE（常微分方程）的重点给搞偏了。它们本该被当作一种工具，对某个过程进行快速建模，从而对系统的行为获得定性认知。我推荐 James Murray 的数学生物学书，里面有很好的例子展示了 ODE 是如何快速帮助人们洞察复杂现象的。
…by hand puts the wrong emphasis on ODEs. They’re supposed to be used as a tool to do quick modelling of a process to get qualitative insights to the behaviour of the system. I recommend James Murray mathematical biology book for nice examples of how ODEs can quickly give insights into complex phenomena.
…...Although chaos and fractal theory have been proposed by some as biological panaceas fortunately there are enough realists to counter this view and generally keep them in perspective." –– JD Murray, Mathematical Biology
HNers: could you suggest me a book or two in 'Mathematics in Biology'. Beginners or intermediate is what I am looking at. I was intrigued by "Essential Mathematical Biology" http://www.amazon.com/reader/185233536X). I usually pick a book based on amazon ratings. I also pour through HN comments and find it equally rated.(eg: "random walk thru walk street" on amazon vs the…
……方程，最好还有一章介绍如何用微分方程组对相互作用的变量系统进行建模。此外，书名类似于《数学生物学模型》（Mathematical Models in Biology）或《数学生物学》（Mathematical Biology）的教材应该都会包含种群增长、双物种捕食者-猎物模型、疾病与流行病学等章节，有时还会有一章化学动力学（这些全部是用微分方程建模的）。
…equations, hopefully also a chapter on how to model systems of interacting variables with a system of differential equations. Then also textbooks with names like "Mathematical Models in Biology" or "Mathematical Biology" should have chapters on population growth, a two-species predator-prey model, diseases and epidemiology, and sometimes also a chapter on chemical kinetics (these are all modelled with differential equations).
这本书的评价还要更好：http://books.google.com/books?id=VmCQ28GWqE0C 《数学生物学：空间模型与生物医学应用》（Mathematical Biology: Spatial models and biomedical applications），作者 James Dickson Murray。亚马逊链接：http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Biology-Introduction-Inte... 数学方法差异很大，取决于……
This book has even better reviews: http://books.google.com/books?id=VmCQ28GWqE0C Mathematical Biology: Spatial models and biomedical applications By James Dickson Murray. Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Biology-Introduction-Inte... Mathematical approaches differ greatly depending on the…
……纯手算把 ODE（常微分方程）的重点给搞偏了。它们本该被当作一种工具，对某个过程进行快速建模，从而对系统的行为获得定性认知。我推荐 James Murray 的数学生物学书，里面有很好的例子展示了 ODE 是如何快速帮助人们洞察复杂现象的。
…by hand puts the wrong emphasis on ODEs. They’re supposed to be used as a tool to do quick modelling of a process to get qualitative insights to the behaviour of the system. I recommend James Murray mathematical biology book for nice examples of how ODEs can quickly give insights into complex phenomena.
“……尽管有些人提出混沌和分形理论是生物学上的万灵药，但幸运的是，有足够多的现实主义者反驳这种观点，并在整体上对它们保持着清醒客观的认识。”——JD Murray，《数学生物学》
…...Although chaos and fractal theory have been proposed by some as biological panaceas fortunately there are enough realists to counter this view and generally keep them in perspective." –– JD Murray, Mathematical Biology
HN 的朋友们：能给我推荐一两本“生物学中的数学”方面的书吗？我想找初级或中级水平的。我对《Essential Mathematical Biology》（http://www.amazon.com/reader/185233536X）挺感兴趣。我通常根据亚马逊评分挑书。我也会翻遍 HN 的评论，发现它评分差不多。（比如：亚马逊上的“漫步华尔街”对比……
HNers: could you suggest me a book or two in 'Mathematics in Biology'. Beginners or intermediate is what I am looking at. I was intrigued by "Essential Mathematical Biology" http://www.amazon.com/reader/185233536X). I usually pick a book based on amazon ratings. I also pour through HN comments and find it equally rated.(eg: "random walk thru walk street" on amazon vs the…
……方程，最好还有一章介绍如何用微分方程组对相互作用的变量系统进行建模。此外，书名类似于《数学生物学模型》（Mathematical Models in Biology）或《数学生物学》（Mathematical Biology）的教材应该都会包含种群增长、双物种捕食者-猎物模型、疾病与流行病学等章节，有时还会有一章化学动力学（这些全部是用微分方程建模的）。
…equations, hopefully also a chapter on how to model systems of interacting variables with a system of differential equations. Then also textbooks with names like "Mathematical Models in Biology" or "Mathematical Biology" should have chapters on population growth, a two-species predator-prey model, diseases and epidemiology, and sometimes also a chapter on chemical kinetics (these are all modelled with differential equations).