Random Walks in Biology: New and Expanded Edition

This book is a classic for good reasons: It describes random walk and diffusion in a way that makes it very intuitive, and focuses on cases that are important for applications. I keep looking up useful things like the formula for a disc-shaped absorper, the drag coefficient of an elliposoid etc.

A real gem of a book, a classic, the best introduction to diffusion you will find along with some useful problems solved like diffusion to a sphere, a half sphere a disc, etc.

Excellent short text introducing the basics for biological statistical mechanics.

Really brings things to light in this book. Starts with very basic derivation, goes on to where it is found. Just really a very nice read.

Perfect

Awesome. You will learn a lot about diffusion, stat mech, and even transport phenomena at the cellular level. Not worth 27 bucks tho.

A wonderful book -- an exceptionally clear, well-written introduction to diffusion, random walks, and bacterial chemotaxis. I return to it often, have recommended it to many students, and have taught from it in various contexts. Not only is it a biophysical classic, it contains a lot of material that is invaluable to any student of physics or of biology -- things like the statistical properties of random walks, the consequences of run-and-tumble chemotaxis, and more.

I bought this book in 1995 to get an understanding of random walk phenomena.The random walk equations are mostly biologically based.That is equations that describe the motion of biological things.Type of things covered ( including but not limited to)Ficks equationsDiffusionDriftdragDiffusion at EquilibriumDerivation of Boltzman equationImportance of KTMean Square VelocityEinstien-Scmoluchowski relationFlagellar propulsionMotility of Escherichia ColiProbability Distributions (Gaussian , Binomial , Poisson)etcThe book is a fairly easy read.You'll need at least high school to uni maths background.The maths is fairly practical stuff ( translatable to s/w code )There are plenty of graphs and diagrams.

Awesome book!

Perhaps the best feature of this book is the hability to explain complex ideas in a quite simple way (by examples) and very focused on the subject. The book is very short but not lacking additional information.

Quality was ok, bought for my son, not my business