Book description
This book is a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. It provides a sound basis for understanding random motions of molecules, subcellular particles, or cells, or of processes that depend on such motion or are markedly…
Why read it?
1 author picked Random Walks in Biology as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Diffusion is rarely taught in physics classes, yet it’s so important for biology.
I love Howard Berg’s first sentence: “Biology is wet and dynamic.” Few authors can make mathematics so engaging and meaningful.
This book is one of those little books that have a big impact. Diffusion is most important at small scales, so get ready to enter the fascinating realm of swimming bacteria and ions moving across cell membranes.
From Brad's list on physics in medicine and biology.
If you love Random Walks in Biology...
December on 5C4
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
Want books like Random Walks in Biology?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Random Walks in Biology.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,299
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like Random Walks in Biology, you might also like...
Karl's War
Karl's War is a coming-of-age-meets-thriller set in Germany on the eve of Hitler coming to power. Karl – a reluctant poster boy for the Nazis – meets Jewish Ben and his world is up-turned.
Ben and his family flee to France. Karl joins the German army but deserts and finds…
Girl in the Ashes
Odette Lefebvre is a serial killer stalking the shadows of Nazi-occupied Paris and must confront both the evils of those she murders and the darkness of her own past.
This young woman's childhood trauma shapes her complex journey through World War II France, where she walks a razor's edge…
