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Mathematical modeling is one of the most important and powerful methods for studying phenomena occurring in our universe. Generally speaking, such a model is made up of one or several equations from which we aim to determine one or several unknown quantities of interest in terms of other, prescribed, quantities. The unknown quantities turn out in many cases to be functions of a set of variables.
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Constanda, C. (2017). Introduction. In: Differential Equations. Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50224-3_1
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