| | Dynamical Systems in Mathematical Modeling II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Thus, the solar system is a dynamical system; the United States economy is a dynamical system; the weather is a dynamical system; the human heart is a dynamical system. |
 | | Mathematically speaking, a dynamical system is a system whose behavior at a given time depends, in some sense, on its behavior at one or more previous times. |
 | | Furthermore, it is the task of the mathematical modeler to come up with a mathematical construct, a model, that will describe this relationship between current and past states of the system so that predictions about the future course of events for the system may be made with some degree of accuracy. |
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