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==Highly interdisciplinary==

Mathematical biology is a highly interdisciplinary area that defies
classification into the usual categories of mathematical research,
although it has involved all areas of mathematics (real and complex
analysis, integral and differential systems, metamathematics,
algebra, geometry, number theory, topology, probability and statistics, as well as computer sciences). The area lies at the intersection of significant
mathematical problems and fundamental questions in biology. The
value of mathematics in biology comes partly from applications of
statistics and calculus to quantifying life science phenomena, but
more importantly from the sophisticated point of view it can bring
to complicated real life systems by organizing information and
identifying and studying emergent structures. Mathematical
scientists, and many more from physics, chemistry, engineering, and
medicine have developed and used mathematical methods in biology
investigations. It is difficult to grasp the broad influence mathematics 
has had in biology.