عنوان

Topics in mathematical modeling

شماره

02BL15904

عنوان اصلي

Topics in mathematical modeling

نام نخستين پديدآور

K.K. Tung.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Princeton, N.J.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2007

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xv, 300 p. ill. 26 cm

عنصر شناسه ای

Mathematical models

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رکورد رده بندي

شماره رکورد غير از شماره رده بندي

عنصر شناسه اي

Tung, K. K.)Ka-Kit(

عنصر شناسه اي

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]287[-291( and index.

عنصر شناسه اي

Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio, and the laws of nature? -- Scaling laws of life, the Internet, and social networks -- Modeling change one step at a time -- Differential equation models: carbon dating, age of the universe, HIV modeling -- Modeling in the physical sciences, Kepler, Newton, and calculus -- Nonlinear population models: an introduction to qualitative analysis using phase planes -- Discrete time logistic map, periodic and chaotic solutions -- Snowball earth and global warming -- Interations: predator-prey, spraying of pests, carnivores in Australia -- Marriage and divorce -- Chaos in deterministic continuous systems, Poincare and Lorenz -- El Nin o and the southern oscillation -- Age of the earth: Lord Kelvin's model -- Collapsing bridges: Broughton and Tacoma narrows -- Appendix A: Differential equations and their solutions -- Appendix B: MATLAB codes