Synopses & Reviews
Review
"What makes for a good mathematics textbook? Challenging, didactic exercises with hints and solutions are a sine qua non: without them you might have a good monograph, but not a good text. Score several points for Hoppensteadt's book, with its meaty exercises...I would recommend the book for a senior or graduate-level course...also valuable as a sourcebook of ideas for applied mathematicians who want to get into this branch of mathematical biology." Mathematical Biosciences
Synopsis
An introduction to mathematical methods used in the study of population phenomena including models of total population and population age structure, models of random population events presented in terms of Markov chains, and methods used to uncover qualitative behavior of more complicated difference equations.
Table of Contents
Preface; 1. Population dynamics; 2. Renewal theory and reproduction matrices; 3. Markov chains; 4. Perturbation methods; 5. Dispersal processes; Appendix; Solutions to selected exercises; References; Author index; Subject index.