Random Walks in Biology
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- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2025
Summary
A landmark account of the dynamics of living systems and the methods for studying them.
Random Walks in Biology provides a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. Howard Berg offers an essential foundation for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, and cells as well as the processes that are affected by such motions. U…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691279893 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691279896 |
| Author: | Howard C. Berg |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library |
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“A scholarly and pedagogically masterly introduction to diffusion, its physics and its statistics.”—Charles DeLisi, Nature“I very strongly recommend this excellent book to students as a supplementary textbook in courses on biochemistry, physiology, and biophysics. Moreover, research scientists and scholars should enjoy reading it.”—Akira Okubo, Quarterly Review of Biology
About The Author
Howard C. Berg
Howard C. Berg (1934–2021) was the Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University.
William Bialek is the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton University.
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