Accessible text features over 100 reality-based examples pulled from the science, engineering, and operations research fields.
Accessible text features over 100 reality-based examples pulled from the science, engineering and operations research fields.
The emphasis of this book lies in the teaching of mathematical modeling rather than simply presenting models. To this end the book starts with the simple discrete exponential growth model as a building block, and successively refines it.
This textbook mirrors the process professionals must follow in solving complex problems. Each chapter in this book is followed by a set of challenging exercises.
This concise and clear introduction to the topic requires only basic knowledge of calculus and linear algebra - all other concepts and ideas are developed in the course of the book.
Can you find a circuit that covers every block exactly once (no deadheading)? If not can you explain why not? ... How does this bear upon Exercises 5 and 6? the number of edges to be added which duplicate e,-.
Highly useful volume discusses the types of models, how to formulate and manipulate them for best results. Numerous examples.
This book explores what it means to teach modeling.
... the first moment of the Fourier transform ) , where M is the number of terms and d is the dimension of the space , while a linear function of the form of equation ( 12.28 ) will have an error of order O ( 1 / M ) [ Barron , 1993 ] .
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.