Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Gervasio, Paola, author.
Chiossi, Simon G., translator.
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| ISBN: | 9783030445416
3030445410
9783030445409
3030445402
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Italian.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2020).
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| Summary: | 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. A broad variety of examples and exercises illustrate that properly designed models can, e.g.: predict the way the number of dolphins in the Aeolian Sea will change as food availability and fishing activity vary; describe the blood flow in a capillary network; calculate the PageRank of websites. This book also includes a chapter with an elementary introduction to Octave, an open-source programming language widely used in the scientific community. Octave functions and scripts for dealing with the problems presented in the text can be downloaded from https://paola-gervasio.unibs.it/quarteroni-gervasio This book is addressed to any student interested in learning how to construct and apply mathematical models.
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| Other form: | 3030445402
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-030-44541-6
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