Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology: Using Modern Discrete Models, Edition 2

Raina Robeva

Nov 2025 · Academic Press

About this ebook

Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology: Using Modern Discrete Models, Second Edition offers an updated, quantitative framework essential for analyzing, predicting, and modulating the behavior of complex biological systems. This book, structured around project-based learning and problem-solving principles, integrates crucial mathematical concepts, methods, and tools contextualized by vital questions raised in modern biology. Topics covered include neuronal networks, plant population growth, metabolic pathways, and phylogenetic tree reconstruction. New mathematical modeling tools featured include Boolean and ordinary differential equations, projection matrices, agent-based modeling, and several algebraic approaches. Updated software manuals and codes are provided, making this a valuable resource for health professionals, scientists, researchers, and students in related fields. - Provides fully updated and expanded content, examples, exercises, and projects on modern discrete mathematics and algebraic statistics - Includes updated computer codes and software manuals to reflect the current state of the field - Prepares readers, through examples, exercises, and carefully selected projects to transition successfully to engaging in student research and reading the research literature - Introduces discrete and algebraic methods in the context of important questions from modern biology at a level requiring minimal mathematical background - Emphasizes the use of specialized software as a necessary element of the modern biology skills set by integrating freely available applications and mainstream proprietary software in the presentation

About the author

Raina Robeva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Virginia and has broad research interests spanning theoretical mathematics, applied probability, and systems biology. Robeva is the founding Chief Editor of the journal Frontiers in Systems Biology and the lead author/editor of the books An Invitation to Biomathematics (2008), Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology: Using Modern Discrete Models (2013), and Algebraic and Discrete Mathematical Methods for Modern Biology (2015), all published by Academic Press. She is Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Center for Science and Technology in Society at Sweet Briar College.