Explores the application of theoretical mathematics to problems of biology, in 11 papers from a seminar at Moscow State University. The overall topics are problems of mathematical statistics, survey and methodology, methods and algorithms, and software. Many of the authors are young, and their ideas and approaches quite novel. Translated from the Russian. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Simon Grigorevich Gindikin (Семён Григорьевич Гиндикин), born 7 December 1937 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, is a mathematician at Rutgers University who introduced the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula for the Harish-Chandra c-function.