Title:
Applied mathematics / J. David Logan, Willa Cather Professor of Mathematics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Department of Mathematics, Lincoln, NE.
Author:
Logan, J. David (John David)
Publication Information:
Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2013]
©2013
Call Number:
QA37.3 .L64 2013
Abstract:
"Now in a thoroughly updated and revised fourth edition, this volume features new concepts and applications to assist readers in modeling and analyzing natural, social, and technological processes. It introduces key ideas in mathematical methods and modeling, focusing on the connections between mathematics and the applied and natural sciences. This edition emphasizes probability and stochastic differential equations and includes additional coverage of mathematics biology, including biochemical kinetics, epidemiology, viral dynamics, parasitic diseases, and more. New and revised exercises are incorporated throughout"-- Provided by publisher.
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Edition:
Fourth edition.
ISBN:
9781118475805
Physical Description:
xi, 658 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents:
1 Dimensional analysis and one-dimensional dynamics -- 2 Two-dimensional dynamical systems -- 3 Perturbation methods and asymptotic expansions -- 4 Calculus of variations -- 5 Boundary value problems and integral equations -- 6 Partial differential equations -- 7 Wave phenomena -- 8 Mathematical models of continua -- 9 Discrete models.
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