The Biomathematics in IMECC

Rodney Carlos Bassanezi ()
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Rodney Carlos Bassanezi: University of Campinas, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing

A chapter in Advances in Mathematics and Applications, 2018, pp 25-65 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The main motivation that led us to work with biomathematics is that we could understand some of the mechanisms of biological phenomena using techniques that came from mathematics. This existing interface between biology and mathematics, characterized by a great contact range, experiences a process of fast-track deepening nowadays. From this two-way process, not only basic biology issues have been solved, but also new lines of research in mathematics have arisen and taken on a life of their own. Moreover, it is important to notice the emerging new fields in applied mathematics, such as genetic algorithms, neural networks, sociobiological algorithms, fuzzy logic, etc., which we could call biological mathematics, as, in many cases, they owe their basic concepts to theoretical biology. It is hard to precisely say how biomathematics began as a research field at the Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). What I am about to tell you consists of some memories from the 1970s, when biomathematics was not talked about around here and the prey–predator system was just an example in the subject of differential equations, taught by Professor Torriani.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94015-1_3

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