C&S BIO M32Essential Calculus for Mathematical Biologists
Computational and Systems Biology · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
(Same as Mathematics M32T and Life Sciences M32.) Not open to students with credit for Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A, or 32B. Designed for life sciences students. Methods and results of single and multivariable calculus essential for quantitative training in biology. Limits, differentiation (single and several variables), optimization, integration and methods of integration, Taylor polynomials and applications to approximation, Taylor and other power series, vector valued functions, gradients, and Lagrange multipliers.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Life Sciences 30A, 30B.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
C&S BIO M32
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.