Description
Offering a solid introduction to the entire modeling process, A FIRST COURSE IN MATHEMATICAL MODELING, 5th Edition delivers an excellent balance of theory and practice, and gives you relevant, hands-on experience developing and sharpening your modeling skills. Throughout, the book emphasizes key facets of modeling, including creative and empirical model construction, model analysis, and model research, and provides myriad opportunities for practice
The authors apply a proven six-step problem-solving process to enhance your problem-solving capabilities — whatever your level. In addition, rather than simply emphasizing the calculation step, the authors first help you learn how to identify problems, construct or select models, and figure out what data needs to be collected. By involving you in the mathematical process as early as possible — beginning with short projects — this text facilitates your progressive development and confidence in mathematics and modeling.
An accessible and complete book for undergraduate modeling course, lots of homework problems
This book has all of the classical undergraduate problems explained well and accessible to any student. The book covers a lot of material that can be used as a resource in many other classes.
I fail to understand the poor reviews of this EXCELLENT introductory text on mathematical modelling. Practitioners of mathematics are known for their masochistic love of proofs and rigor, and when covering more advanced concepts, authors of mathematics textbooks make the mistake of assuming that their audience is versed in high-level mathematics (because who else would they be reading an advanced mathematics textbook, right?). However, I research for a living, and my job requires that I master many areas of knowledge quickly and efficiently despite the fact that my quantitative skills are not the best. Therefore, I have mastered the ability to find references that sufficiently cover advanced concepts in a seemingly oxymoronic basic and accessible manner. Such books are rare, but this is precisely what the author has done in this instance. Having reviewed many, MANY books on Mathematical modelling, the subject matter simply does not get any easier or clearer than this. In my opinion, if the reader cannot grasp the concepts laid forth so plainly in this AMAZING textbook, then they probably should not be pursuing a major that requires any mathematical modelling at all. Kudos to the author. I hope to see more good work like this in the future.
great introductory book to mathematical modeling