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The analysis of quantitative data in biochemistry usually requires the calculation of theoretical models. Their analytical solutions are functions given as explicit formulas
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This book has been written in the Max-Planck-Institute for molecular physiology in Dortmund and owes to its stimulating scientific environment. Part of this book was presented as a lecture to its IMPRS students http://www.imprs-cb.mpg.de/. They asked important questions so that an improved course could be taught to students and faculty of the Suranaree University of Technology http://www.sut.ac.th. This led to the development of a teaching course. Alexander Fieroch introduced me to the free world of GNU software, and thus provided the stimulus to write a textbook on numerical methods. He wrote the instructions to download GNU Octave for Mac and Linux operating systems, which is provided in the appendix.
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Prinz, H. (2011). Introduction. In: Numerical Methods for the Life Scientist. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20820-1_1
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