<I>Mathematical Modeling for Society and Biology</I> engagingly relates mathematics to compelling real-life problems in biology and contemporary society. It shows how mathematical tools can be used to gain insight into these modern, common problems to provide effective, real solutions. <br><br>Beltrami's creative, non-threatening approach draws on a wealth of interesting examples pertaining ...

The polymer industry raises a large number of relevant mathematical problems with respect to the quality of manufactured polymer parts. These include in particular questions about: - the production of the polymeric material from a monomer (based on the Ziegler-Natta catalytic process) - the crystallization kinetic of the polymer melt - the coupling of the crystallization process with the fluid dynamics of the manufacturing process such as ...

Diffusion and growth phenomena abound in the real world
surrounding us. Someexamples: growth of the world's
population, growth rates of humans, public interest in news
events, growth and decline of central city populations,
pollution of rivers, adoption of agricultural innovations,
and spreading of epidemics and migration of insects. These
and numerous other phenomena are illustrations of typical
growth ...

A Modeler's Approach
aus der Reihe Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics'>JAMES R. THOMPSON, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at Rice University. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, he is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 1985, he received the ASA's Don Owen Award, and in 1991, he was awarded the U.S. Army's Samuel S. Wilks Medal for his work in applied statistics. A frequent consultant to industry, he holds adjunct professorships ...

Genetische Ansätze von evolutionärer oder ökonomischer Bedeutung werden oft von einer Vielzahl genetischer Loci bestimmt und sind entsprechend schwierig mathematisch zu behandeln. Dieser Band untersucht die moderne Theorie solcher Systeme, die von den fundamentalen Wirkungen der Selektion, Rekombination und Mutation beherrscht werden. Einen Schwerpunkt bilden dabei Modelle, die unmittelbar auf die quantitativ-evolutionäre ...

Dieser Band vermittelt das notwendige Rüstzeug zum Erstellen einer allgemeinen Software für die Analyse flexibler, dynamischer Vielkörpersysteme, gestützt auf eine mathematisch exakte Behandlung ausgedehnter Rotationen und auf die Modellierung mit Hilfe finiter Elemente. Untersucht werden dabei verschiedene Analyseverfahren, u. a. differentialalgebraische und multiharmonische Ansätze sowie nichtlineare ...

Interest Rate Modelling provides a comprehensive resource on all the main aspects of valuing and hedging interest rate products. A series of introductory chapters reviews the theoretical background, pointing out the problems in using na? ve valuation and implementation techniques. There follows a full analysis of interest rate models including major categories, such as affine, HJM and market models, and in addition, lesser well known types that ...

Kirill Ilinski graduated from the Physics Department of Leningrad State University. He received his PhD in mathematical physics from the Leningrad Branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He spent five years as a Research Fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Birmingham, where he became interested in applications of methods of theoretical physics to financial economics, and attracted the ...

Automated and semi-automated manipulation of so-called labelled transition systems has become an important means in discovering flaws in software and hardware systems. Process algebra has been developed to express such labelled transition systems algebraically, which enhances the ways of manipulation by means of equational logic and term rewriting.The theory of process algebra has developed rapidly over the last twenty years, and verification ...

This book systematically introduces theories, methods, and applications of modeling contaminant transport in groundwater. It can be used as a textbook at the graduate level or a reference book for hydrogeologists, geochemists, petroleum engineers, and environmental engineers. It is also an interesting book for applied mathematicians. The book covers all main aspects and the latest developments in the field of groundwater quality modeling. The ...