10 Jan 2013

Book published: Introduction to Systems Analysis

Book Cover

The book Introduction to Systems Analysis: Mathematically Modeling Natural Systems by Dieter Imboden and myself is now available. This is a textbook for non-maths students interested in applying (simple) mathematical models to environmental problems.

I created a simple website for the book, originally with the idea to have many interactive examples of the models discussed in the book. Due to time constraints, only three examples are online: the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model, a “two-box model”, and a demonstration of substance dispersion in a lake. The examples are cobbled together from various Javascript libraries, most importantly JSXGraph and Tangle.

The book is available on Amazon or directly from Springer, the publisher: