Neil Gershenfeld

The Nature of Mathematical Modeling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Major text/reference work on computer modeling for students and researchers in any quantitative or semi-quantitative discipline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9780521210508
• ISBN-10: 052121050X
• Artikelnr.: 33868089

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Analytical Models: 2. Ordinary differential and difference equations
3. Partial differential equations
4. Variational principles
5. Random systems
Part II. Numerical Models: 6. Finite differences: ordinary difference equations
7. Finite differences: partial differential equations
8. Finite elements
9. Cellular automata and lattice gases
Part III. Observational Models: 10. Function fitting
11. Transforms
12. Architectures
13. Optimization and search
14. Clustering and density estimation
15. Filtering and state estimation
16. Linear and nonlinear time series
Appendix 1. Graphical and mathematical software
Appendix 2. Network programming
Appendix 3. Benchmarking
Appendix 4. Problem solutions
Bibliography.