A concrete approach to mathematical modelling

作者：  Michael Mesterton-Gibbons

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简介：A textbook that teaches both critical and creative modeling skills, primarily for a senior-level course that gives equal weight to deterministic and probabilistic modeling. It emphasizes both the validation of mathematical models and the rationale behind improving them. The approach embodies the belief that the three most fundamental ideas in mathematical modeling are transience, permanence, and optimality. The minimal mathematical prerequisites are the standard calculus sequence and first courses in linear algebra, ordinary differential equations, and probability and statistics. Probability and statistics are reviewed in an appendix. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.