Description
- Chapter projects guide more thorough investigations of the models
- The text aims to expand a student’s communication skills and perspectives
- The widespread applications even include biology
- Its structure allows it to serve as either primary or supplemental text
- Uses Mathematica to develop models and computations
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Modeling with Calculus; Exploring Extrema; Modeling with The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; Probability Distributions; Introduction to Stochastic Processes Applications of Sequences and Series; Fibonacci and Lucas Sequences; Taylor Approximations Fourier Series and Signal Processing. Chapter 2: Modeling with Linear Algebra; Modeling with Graphs; Stochastic Models - Markov Chains; Leslie Matrices and other Matrix Models; Linear Programming; Game Theory. Chapter 3: Modeling with Programming; Simulations; Automata Models; Branching Theory. Chapter 4: Modeling with Ordinary Differential Equations; Introduction of Modeling with Differential Equations and Difference Equations; Basic Growth Models; Finding and Analyzing Equilibrium; Multiple Population Models, Coupled Systems; Epidemic Models; Models in a Variety of Fields.
