A Primer on Mathematical Modelling

von Alfio Quarteroni, Paola Gervasio

238 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this book we describe the magic world of mathematical models: starting from real-life problems, we formulate them in terms of equations, transform equations into algorithms and algorithms into programs to be executed on computers.

A broad variety of examples and exercises illustrate that properly designed models can, e.g.: predict the way the number of dolphins in the Aeolian Sea will change as food availability and fishing activity vary; describe the blood flow in a capillary network; calculate the PageRank of websites.

This book also includes a chapter with an elementary introduction to Octave, an open-source programming language widely used in the scientific community. Octave functions and scripts for dealing with the problems presented in the text can be downloaded from https://paola-gervasio.unibs.it/quarteroni-gervasio

This book is addressed to any student interested in learning how to construct and apply mathematical models.

• Reihe: La Matematica per il 3+2
• ISBN: 9783030445409
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2020
• Genre: Mathematik/Analysis
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Übersetzung: Simon G. Chiossi