MB130 - Viruses: The Biology and Mathematical Modeling of Epidemics

Basic overview of viral infections, symptoms, mutations, and viral life cycles, and how politics, history, and culture can affect the spread of viral epidemics. Second block will provide a meaningful research experience using techniques from differential calculus to model viral epidemics and provide a deeper understanding of how calculus-based ideas fit into a biological context. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Scientific Investigation of the Natural World requirement. (Not offered 2023-24).

Prerequisite: High School Calculus, Mathematics 125, Mathematics 126, or consent of instructor.

Degree requirement — Critical Perspectives: I

2 units

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