Situated Complexity: Modeling Change in Nonlinear Biological Systems with a Focus on Africa

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.