TY - BOOK AU - TI - Topics in mathematical modeling / K. K. Tung SN - 9780691116426 U1 - 511.8 PY - 2007/// CY - Estados Unidos de América: PB - Princenton University Press, KW - MATHEMATICAL MODELING. CALCULOS. EQUATIONS N1 - Incluye bibliografía; 1. Fibonacci numbers, the golden ratio and laws of nature. --2. Scaling law of life, the internet and social networks. --3. Modeling change one step at a time. --4. Differential equation models: carbon dating, age of the universe, HIV modeling. --5. Modeling in the physical sciences, Keple, Newton and Caculos. --6. Nonlinear population models: an introduction to qualitative analysus using phase planes. --7. Discrete time logistic map, periodic and chaotic solutions. --8. Snowball earth and global warming. --9. Interactions: predator-prey, spraying of pests carnivores in Australia. --10. Marriage and divorce. --11. Chaos in deterministic continuous system, poincare and lonrenz. --12. El niño and the southern oscilation. --13. Age of the Earth: Lord Kelvins model. --14. Collapsing bridges: broughton and tacoma narrows ER -