Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems in the Life Sciences

Download or read book Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems in the Life Sciences written by Peter E. Kloeden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonautonomous dynamics describes the qualitative behavior of evolutionary differential and difference equations, whose right-hand side is explicitly time dependent. Over recent years, the theory of such systems has developed into a highly active field related to, yet recognizably distinct from that of classical autonomous dynamical systems. This development was motivated by problems of applied mathematics, in particular in the life sciences where genuinely nonautonomous systems abound. The purpose of this monograph is to indicate through selected, representative examples how often nonautonomous systems occur in the life sciences and to outline the new concepts and tools from the theory of nonautonomous dynamical systems that are now available for their investigation.