{"id":2786,"date":"2009-07-24T07:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T23:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:37:47","slug":"friday-math-movie-biology-meets-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-biology-meets-mathematics-2786","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - Biology Meets Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists tend not to like math. I had a group of biology students in a calculus class of mine a few years ago - their math anxiety was palpable.<\/p>\n<p>This movie from the University of Nottingham gives an overview of a meeting where mathematicians try to help biologists solve problems. The movie mentions mathematical modeling - where you come up with a set of equations to describe some natural phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we don't get any details on exactly <i>what<\/i> biological problems are being addressed (apart from that it's something to do with skin cell growth and repair), nor do we get a sense of how well the models replicate the real-world data.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PtLnwvH4kuE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of mathematicians work on some models in the biological sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}