Situated Complexity

About the Book

Based on a course given by the author for many years at Dartmouth College, this text serves not only as an introduction to the modeling literature in pharmacokinetics, epidemiology, and ecology, but also as a launching pad for independent research in mathematical biology for readers who have completed one semester of calculus. Although topics are drawn from the tropical diseases and ecology of sub-Saharan Africa, they represent a rich collection of problems that arise in diverse cultural and biological contexts worldwide.

About the Author

Dorothy Wallace is Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. Her research interests include both pure and applied mathematics. In addition to scholarly papers in number theory and dynamical systems, she has also co-authored a text on quantum mechanics, ``The Bell that Rings Light” and is co-editor of the electronic journal, “Numeracy”. Dr. Wallace grew up in California but now lives and works in New Hampshire.