Overview: The preface is that part of a book which is written last, placed ?rst, and read least. Alfred J. Lotka Elements of Physical Biology Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company 1925 The purpose of this book is to show how models of complex systems are built up and to provide the mathematical tools indispensable for studying their dynamics. This is not, however, a book on the theory of dynamical systems illustrated with some applications; the focus is on modeling, so, in prese- ing the essential results of dynamical system theory, technical proofs of th- rems are omitted, but references for
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