MATH3063 RESOURCES

Important Links

Information Sheet

Canvas

ED discussion forum

Recommended Texts

There is no required textbook or lecture notes for this unit. However the following three books have been placed in the SciTech Library Reserve section or are online.

"Mathematical Models in Biology" by Leah Edelstein-Keshet (also online via catalog)

"Mathematical Biology" by J.D. Murray

"Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems" by W Boyce and R DiPrima

TUTORIALS
Tutorials in Week N+1 are based on Lectures from week N; tutorials start in Week 2.
You must print your own copy of the question sheet and try MOST of the questions before coming to the tutorial.

Scholarpedia links:

Definitions of stability

Limit Cycles

Robustness

For those who are nostalgic or want to see what this course looked like 32 years ago, here are my notes which I found the other day in my filing cabinet!

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MORE RESEARCH and MEDIA ARTICLES

• Schaefer’s original paper on fisheries management, sustainable harvesting and the constant effort model.
• Wikipedia page about Allee effect
• Wikipedia page about Functional response
• Robert May's review article on grazing systems (i.e. how grass grows when cows eat it!).
• Ludwig et al. original paper on the Spruce Budworm model
• Chapter 5 of the first year notes for MATH1013 on applications of the logistic model including peak oil and sustainable harvesting.

• Stoichiometry is measuring the amounts of chemicals required to balance chemical equations. It won't be needed in this unit but here is a simple example. It can also mean working backwards from measured quantities to determine the chemical formulas for compounds.