Originally published in Russian in 1997 as Matematicheskoe Modelirovanie: Idei. Metoid. Primeri by Physical and Mathematical Literature Publishing Company, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I. The Elementary Mathematical Models and Basic Concepts of Mathematical Modeling -- 1. Elementary Mathematical Models -- 2. Examples of Models Following from the Fundamental Laws of Nature -- 3. Variational Principles and Mathematical Models -- 4. Examples of the Hierarchy of Models -- 5. The Universality of Mathematical Models -- 6. Several Models of Elementary Nonlinear Objects -- II. Derivation of Models from the Fundamental Laws of Nature -- 1. Conservation of the Mass of Substance -- 2. Conservation of Energy -- 3. Conservation of the Number of Particles -- 4. Joint Application of Several Fundamental Laws -- III. Models Deduced from Variational Principles, Hierarchies of Models -- 1. Equations of Motion, Variational Principles and Conservation Laws in Mechanics -- 2. Models of Some Mechanical Systems -- 3. The Boltzmann Equation and its Derivative Equations -- IV. Models of Some Hardly Formalizable Objects -- 1. Universality of Mathematical Models -- 2. Some Models of Financial and Economic Processes -- 3. Some Rivalry Models -- 4. Dynamics of Distribution of Power in Hierarchy -- V. Study of Mathematical Models -- 1. Application of Similarity Methods -- 2. The Maximum Principle and Comparison Theorems -- 3. An Averaging Method -- 4. On Transition to Discrete Models -- VI. Mathematical Modeling of Complex Objects -- 1. Problems of Technology and Ecology -- 2. Fundamental Problems of Natural Science -- 3. Computing Experiment with Models of Hardly Formalizable Objects.