Mathematics for Dynamic Modeling - Hardcover

9780120855551: Mathematics for Dynamic Modeling

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0120855550 ISBN 13: 9780120855551

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 2000

This new edition of Mathematics for Dynamic covers tools such as linearization, feedback concepts, the use of Liapunov functions, and optimal control. Each chapter includes exercises, many of which expand on the material in the text.

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Review:

"A remarkable contribution...it is not often that one finds, in the same chapter, a coherent and complementary discussion of the pumping heart, spruce budworm infestations, and terrestrial magnetic field reversal...stimulating and informative." --A.A. Barnes, McMaster University, in PHYSICS IN CANADA

About the Author:

Edward Beltrami has been a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at SUNY Stony Brook for three decades. Prior to this,Dr. Beltrami worked as an engineer at the former Grumman Aerospace Corporation. He has lectured widely and spent extended periods at universities abroad, especially in Italy. With a joint appointment in the Marine Sciences Research Center at SUNY, Beltrami has wide-ranging research interests, from optimization methods in Operation Research to the dynamics of biochemical reactions in blood clotting.

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