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Applied Mathematics 1201A/B
CALCULUS AND PROBABILITY WITH BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Applications of integration, integration using mathematical software packages. Scaling and allometry. Basic probability theory. Fundamentals of linear algebra: vectors, matrices, matrix algebra. Difference and differential equations. Each topic will be illustrated by examples and applications from the biological sciences, such as population growth, predator-prey dynamics, age-structured populations.