Variational Methods in Partially Ordered Spaces

This book is divided roughly into two sections. The first part mainly introduces concepts from nonlinear dynamics using an almost exclusively biological setting for motivation. The second part consists of five in-depth examples of how the authors have used the concepts of the first part of the book in their research investigations of biological and physiological systems. Appendices highlight those techniques found most useful. The book emphasizes analytic and computer exercises throughout the book using XPP or Matlab. Introductions to both XPP or Matlab are included in the appendices. This book will be of interest to students and researchers working in science and engineering and those interested in understanding the workings of biological systems and learning some of the theoretical techniques behind achieving that understanding.