Mathematics and medicine: not as disjoint as you might think!

Maria Geneva Roselle Liwag
Thursday, November 3 at 4:30 pm
Ross N638

According to James Keener, a professor of mathematical biology at the University of Utah, "Heart attacks can give you mathematics." While a few might say it should be written the other way around – mathematics can give you heart attacks – Prof. Keener suggests an intriguing yet interesting concept: medical phenomena such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer progression can be studied and addressed with an unlikely weapon: math. This talk aims to dispel these two misconceptions: that mathematics and medicine are two disjoint fields, and that the medical industry does not employ math beyond Calculus I, if not no math at all. (No medical degree required.