Random Walks in Biology: New and Expanded Edition

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This book provides an introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics for students of biology, biochemistry and biophysics. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly affected by it. Readers do not need to understand thermodynamics in order to acquire a knowledge of the physics involved in diffusion, sedimentation, electrophoresis, chromatography and cell motility - subjects that become more understandable and immediate when the author discusses them in terms of random walks of individual particles.

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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, The Quarterly Review of Biology

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Howard C. Berg is Professor of Biology at Harvard University and a Member of the Rowland Institute for Science.