Biological Physics

This is a book for life science students who are willing to use calculus. This is also a book for physical science and engineering students who are willing to think about cells. I believe that in the future every student in both groups will need to know the essential core of the others' knowledge.
In the past few years, I have attended many conferences and seminars. Increasingly, I have found myself surrounded not only by physicists, biologists, chemists, and engineers, but also by physicians, mathematicians, and entrepreneurs. These people come together to learn from one another, and the traditional academic distinctions between their fields are becoming increasingly irrelevant to this exciting work. I want to share some of their excitement with you.
I began to wonder how this diverse group managed to overcome the Tower-ofBabel syndrome. Slowly I began to realize that, even though each discipline carries its immense load of experimental and theoretical detail, still the headwaters of these rivers are manageable, and come from a common spring, a handful of simple, general ideas. Armed with these few ideas, I found that one can understand an enormous amount of front line research. This book explores these first common ideas, ruthlessly suppressing the more specialized ones for later.

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