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It is true that there are plenty of mathematical phrases and expressions, but this is because mathematics is the best language to use when we talk about many of these subjects. It is important to be comfortable with the languages of science, and mathematics is one of the most elegant. I have felt free to use mathematical development with many of the subjects, and there is a real biological method to this madness. The really interesting part of biology – and what makes a biologist a biologist – is that our attention is continually drawn past the details of the individual elements of a living system to the way the system acts as a whole.
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Bergethon, P.R. (2010). Introduction: To the Student – First Edition. In: The Physical Basis of Biochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6324-6_1
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