- Docente: Luca Ferrari
- Credits: 5
- SSD: MAT/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Pharmacy (cod. 9219)
Course contents
- Proportions and percentages.
- Proportionality.
- Main units of measure. Multiples and submultiples. Scientific notation. Approximation.
- Areas and volumes. Trigonometry.
- Points and lines in the cartesian plane.
- Definition of function. Domain and image. Image and inverse image. Invertible functions and inverse function.
- Graphs of polynomial, rational, irrational, exponential and logarithmic functions. Related problems.
- Limits and derivatives (hints).
- Combinatorics: combinations and permutations.
- Probability. Union and intersection of events. Complementary event. Mutually exclusive and non-exclusive events. Dependent and independent events. Conditional probability. Applications: genetics and diagnostic tests.
Readings/Bibliography
V. Villani, G. Gentili, Matematica 5/ed - Comprendere e interpretare fenomeni delle scienze della vita, McGraw-Hill, 2012.
D. Benedetto, M. Degli Esposti, C. Maffei, Matematica per le scienze della vita, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2008.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Written exam consisting of numerical/graphical answers.
Teaching tools
Notes and videos of the lessons are available on Virtuale.
Office hours
See the website of Luca Ferrari