Guess biology isn’t STEM then, sorry.
But I’m all seriousness, calculus (and by extension differential equations) is super common in bio. Reaction rates, stable population sizes, micro and macro. I’d be surprised if you never came across it.
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Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 1 day agoI don’t think I’ve had anything calculus related in my biology degree.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Which is why all the bio papers are n=2
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
So THAT’S why a biologist had to reinventcalculus in 1994:
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“A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves”, Mary M. Tai, Diabetes Care, 1994, 17, 152–154