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Calculating the Secrets of Life: Contributions of the Mathematical Sciences to Molecular Biology - National Research Council, and Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Commission on Physical Sciences Mathematics...
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In this first-ever survey of the partnership between mathematics and biology, leading experts look at how mathematical research and methods have made possible important discoveries in biology. Explores how differential geometry, topology, and differential mechanics have allowed researchers to "wind" and "unwind" DNA's double helix to understand the phenomenon of supercoiling. Explains how mathematical tools are revealing the workings of enzymes and proteins. Describes how mathematicians are detecting echoes from the origin ...

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Calculating the Secrets of Life: Contributions of the Mathematical Sciences to Molecular Biology 1995, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.

ISBN-13: 9780309048866

Hardcover