Multiscale Problems in the Life Sciences From Microscopic to Macroscopic /

• Main Authors: Banasiak, Jacek (Author), Chaplain, Mark A. J. (Author), Miękisz, Jacek (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Capasso, Vincenzo (Editor), Lachowicz, Mirosław (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1940
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operator theory.; Partial differential equations.; Game theory.; Probabilities.; Partial Differential Equations.; Operator Theory.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

The aim of this volume that presents Lectures given at a joint CIME and Banach Center Summer School, is to offer a broad presentation of a class of updated methods providing a mathematical framework for the development of a hierarchy of models of complex systems in the natural sciences, with a speci...

Table of Contents:

• Positivity in Natural Sciences
• Rescaling Stochastic Processes: Asymptotics
• Modelling Aspects of Cancer Growth: Insight from Mathematical and Numerical Analysis and Computational Simulation
• Lins Between Microscopic and Macroscopic Descriptions
• Evolutionary Game Theory and Population Dynamics
• Erratum.