9ANALYSIS AND SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION

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In this chapter we’ll express the models from previous chapters as difference equations and differential equations, solve the equations, and derive the functional forms of the solutions. I’ll also present some thoughts about the complementary roles of mathematical analysis and simulation.

This chapter is available as a Jupyter notebook where you can read the text, run the code, and work on the exercises. You can access the notebooks at https://allendowney.github.io/ModSimPy.

Difference Equations

The population models in the previous chapter and this one are simple enough that we didn’t really need to run simulations. ...

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