title: Vignettes from the field of mathematical biology: the application of mathematics to biology and medicine.
abstract: The application of mathematical models in biology and medicine has a long history. From the sparse number of papers in the first half of the twentieth century with a few scientists working in the field it has become vast with thousands of active researchers. We give a brief, and far from definitive history, of how some parts of the field have developed and how the type of research has changed. We describe in more detail just two examples of specific models which are directly related to real biological problems, namely animal coat patterns and the growth and image enhancement of glioblastoma brain tumours.
authors.affiliation: Applied and Computational Mathematics and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , Princeton University , Princeton, NJ 08544-1003 , USA.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Murray
keywords: biology; mathematics; medicine
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