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Book DetailsCourant Lecture NotesVolume: 23; 2011; 111 ppMSC: Primary 92;
Any organism, to survive, must use a variety of defense mechanisms. A relatively recent evolutionary development is that of the adaptive immune system, carried to a quite sophisticated level by mammals. The complexity of this system calls for its encapsulation by mathematical models, and this book aims at the associated description and analysis. In the process, it introduces tools that should be in the armory of any current or aspiring applied mathematician, in the context of, arguably, the most effective system nature has devised to protect an organism from its manifold invisible enemies.
ReadershipGraduate students and research mathematicians interested in immunology.
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Table of Contents
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Chapters
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Chapter 1. The HIV pandemic
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Chapter 2. Basic facts of immunology
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Chapter 3. Quantifying the immune response (assays)
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Chapter 4. Modeling humoral immune responses
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Chapter 5. Modeling cell-mediated response
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Chapter 6. Control of immune response
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Chapter 7. Viewpoint of the virus
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Additional Material
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Any organism, to survive, must use a variety of defense mechanisms. A relatively recent evolutionary development is that of the adaptive immune system, carried to a quite sophisticated level by mammals. The complexity of this system calls for its encapsulation by mathematical models, and this book aims at the associated description and analysis. In the process, it introduces tools that should be in the armory of any current or aspiring applied mathematician, in the context of, arguably, the most effective system nature has devised to protect an organism from its manifold invisible enemies.
Graduate students and research mathematicians interested in immunology.
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Chapters
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Chapter 1. The HIV pandemic
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Chapter 2. Basic facts of immunology
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Chapter 3. Quantifying the immune response (assays)
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Chapter 4. Modeling humoral immune responses
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Chapter 5. Modeling cell-mediated response
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Chapter 6. Control of immune response
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Chapter 7. Viewpoint of the virus
