Randall J. Swift
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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A Course in Mathematical Modeling

Picture of Textbook coverThis website accompanies the modeling text A Course in Mathematical Modeling by Douglas D. Mooney and Randall J. Swift, published by the Mathematical Association of America, 1999. Information about this text can be found at the MAA publications site.

Independent reviews of the text can be found here and here.

Chapter

Title

0

Modeling Basics:  Purpose, Resolution, and Resources

1

Discrete Dynamical Systems

2

Discrete Stochasticity

3

Stages, States, and Classes

4

Emperical Modeling

5

Continuous Models

6

Continuous Stochasticity

Appendix

Mathematica Appendix ( Downloadable )