Fundamentals of Human Physiology
This textbook explores the fundamental qualitative and quantitative aspects of human physiology. It approaches biological and physiological processes and phenomena from a quantitative perspective, revealing how physiological problems can be mathematically
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Fundamentals of Human Physiology
Fundamentals of Human Physiology
Giovanni Cavagna
Fundamentals of Human Physiology
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Giovanni Cavagna Milano State University Milan, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-19403-1 ISBN 978-3-030-19404-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19404-8
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To my students
Foreword
In the fall of 1989, as a third-year medical student, I was preparing to enroll in a human physiology course at the University of Milan. Several professors offered that course and a lottery mechanism matched students with a professor. If your grades were high enough, though, and you were not happy with the results of the lottery, you had the option to petition for enrollment with a professor who had a reputation for being quite lenient. When the lottery assigned me to Prof. Cavagna, known for being particularly demanding, I heeded peer pressure and petitioned, and obtained, to be switched to the more lenient professor’s course. Nonetheless, I remained intrigued by the exacting reputation that surrounded Cavagna, so I decided that, for the first week, I would attend classes of both professors. Attending those first few classes from Cavagna convinced me that his (deserved) reputation was a reflection of the quality, dedication, and commitment to teaching, and I re-petitioned to be switched back to where destiny had originally placed me. While, admittedly, I did not have the time to study any subject other than physiology for the entire academic year, I now look back at that course 30 years later and recognize that it was one of the best professional investments for my career. It is thus particularly precious tha
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