Calculus for The Life Sciences

Sebastian J. Schreiber received his B.A. in mathematics from Boston University in 1989 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. He is currently Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of California, Davis. Previously, he was an associate professor of mathematics at the College of William and Mary, where he was the 2005 recipient of the Simon Prize for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, and Western Washington University. Professor Schreiber’s research on stochastic processes, nonlinear dynamics, and applications to ecology, evolution, and epidemiology has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Bureau for Land Management, and the U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Service. He is the author or co-author of over seventy scientific papers in peer-reviewed mathematics and biology journals, including papers co-authored with undergraduate students. Professor Schreiber is currently on the editorial boards of the following research journals: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems B, Ecology, Journal of Biological Dynamics, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Medicine and Biology, and Theoretical Ecology.

Karl J. Smith received his B.A. and M.A. in 1967 in mathematics form UCLA. He moved to northern California in 1968 to teach at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he taught until his retirement in 1993. Along the way, he served as department chair, and he received a Ph.D. in 1979 in mathematics education at Southeastern University. A past president of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Professor Smith is active nationally in mathematics education. He was founding editor of Western AMATYC News, a chairperson of the Committee on Mathematics Excellence, and a NSF grant reviewer. He was a recipient in 1979 of an Outstanding Young Men of America Award, in 1980 of an Outstanding Educator Award, and in 1989 of an Outstanding Teacher Award. Professor Smith is the author of over 60 successful textbooks. Over two million students have learned mathematics from his textbooks.

Wayne M. Getz received his undergraduate and Ph.D. (1976) degrees in applied mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 1979 he emigrated to the United States to take a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently the A. Starker Leopold Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Biomathematician in Agricultural Experiments Station. Professor Getz has a D.Sc. from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and has honorary appointments in the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria and in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, both in South Africa, and he is a founder and trustee of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis. Recognition for his research in biomathematics and its application to various areas of physiology, behavior, ecology, and evolution includes an Alexander von Humboldt US Senior Scientist Research Award in 1992, and election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995), the California Academy of Sciences (2000), and the Royal Society of South Africa (2003). He was appointed as a Chancellor’s Professor at UC Berkeley from 1998 to 2001. Professor Getz has served as a consultant to both government and industry, and his research over the past thirty years has been funded by various government institutions and private foundations. Professor Getz has published a book titled Population Harvestingin the Princeton Monographs in Population Biology series, edited other books and volumes, and is an author or coauthor on more than 250 scientific papers in over fifty different peer-reviewed applied mathematics and biology journals.