A Course in Mathematical Modeling
eBook - PDF

A Course in Mathematical Modeling

  1. 453 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Course in Mathematical Modeling

About this book

The emphasis of this book lies in the teaching of mathematical modeling rather than simply presenting models. To this end the book starts with the simple discrete exponential growth model as a building block, and successively refines it. This involves adding variable growth rates, multiple variables, fitting growth rates to data, including random elements, testing exactness of fit, using computer simulations and moving to a continuous setting. No advanced knowledge is assumed of the reader, making this book suitable for elementary modeling courses. The book can also be used to supplement courses in linear algebra, differential equations, probability theory and statistics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface
  6. To the Teacher
  7. Contents
  8. 0 Modeling Basics: Purpose, Resolution, and Resources
  9. 1 Discrete Dynamical Systems
  10. 2 Discrete Stochasticity
  11. 3 Stages, States, and Classes
  12. 4 Empirical Modeling
  13. 5 Continuous Models
  14. 6 Continuous Stochasticity
  15. Appendices
  16. References
  17. Index
  18. Back cover

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