A survey is presented of some mathematical problems encountered in biological studies. A brief description of the problems to be discussed are as follows. 1. Blood flow: The mean flow of blood through arteries and veins does not behave in accordance with Poiseuille's law all the time. 2. Tracer analysis: The inferences to be drawn from radioactive tracer studies of physiological systems, called compartment analysis, is an inverse problem. 3. Cell populations: The growth of cell populations is conveniently described by differential equations which utilize either age and time or maturity and time as independent variables.
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S. I. Rubinow (1975) studied this question.
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