Mathematical modelling : classroom notes in applied mathematics /

Designed for classroom use, this book contains short, self-contained mathematical models of problems in the physical, mathematical, and biological sciences first published in the Classroom Notes section of the SIAM Review from 1975-1985. The problems provide an ideal way to make complex subject matt...

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Corporate Author: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Other Authors: Klamkin, Murray S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : SIAM, 1987.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Physical and mathematical sciences. 1. Mechanics
  • 2. Heat transfer and diffusion
  • 3. Traffic flow
  • 4. Electrical networks
  • 5. Communication and coding
  • 6. Graph theory and applications
  • 7. Applied geometry
  • 7.1. Catastrophe theory
  • 8. Numerical analysis
  • Mathematical economics
  • 10. Optimization (Including linear, nonlinear, dynamic, and geometric programming, control theory, games and other miscellaneous topics)
  • 10.1. Music
  • 11. Stochastic models
  • 11.1. Sports
  • 12. Miscellaneous
  • pt. II. Life sciences. 1. Population models
  • 2. Medical models
  • Appendix: 1. An unsolved problem in the behavioral sciences
  • 2. General supplementary references in the behavioral sciences.