The mathematization of medicine

The wisdom of this in the field of economics has been debated and is perhaps also debatable. But what about medicine? I am not in a position to judge how useful nor am I in a position to say how widespread and popular it is but I came across the following

From Cardiovascular Mathematics by Luca Formaggia, Alfio Quarteroni, and Alessandro Veneziani (Eds.). The following is from Chapter 2