Introduction to Population Modeling (Umap Expository Monograph Series)

Frauenthal, J. C.

ISBN 10: 3764330155 / ISBN 13: 9783764330156

Published by Birkhäuser Verlag, 1980

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:3764330155.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to Population Modeling (Umap Expository Monograph Series)
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
• Publication Date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 3764330155
• ISBN 13: 9783764330156
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 350 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

The text of this monograph represents the author's lecture notes from a course taught in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the Spring of 1977. On account of its origin as lecture notes, some sections of the text are telegraphic in style while other portions are overly detailed. This stylistic foible has not been modified as it does not appear to detract seriously from the readability and it does help to indicate which topics were stressed. The audience for the course at Stony Brook was composed almost entirely of fourth year undergraduates majoring in the mathematical sciences. All of these students had studied at least four semesters of calculus and one of probability; few had any prior experience with either differential equations or ecology. It seems prudent to point out that the author's background is in engineering and applied mathematics and not in the biological sciences. It is hoped that this is not painfully obvious. -vii- The focus of the monograph is on the formulation and solution of mathematical models; it makes no pretense of being a text in ecology. The idea of a population is employed mainly as a pedagogic tool, providing unity and intuitive appeal to the varied mathematical ideas introduced. If the biological setting is stripped away, what remains can be interpreted as topics on the qualitative behavior of differential and difference equations.