Discrete Dynamical Systems

Oded Galor3540367756, 9783540367758

This book provides an introduction to discrete dynamical systems – a framework of analysis that is commonly used in the  fields of biology, demography, ecology, economics, engineering, finance, and physics. The book characterizes the fundamental factors that govern the quantitative and qualitative trajectories of a variety of deterministic, discrete dynamical systems, providing solution methods for systems that can be solved analytically and methods of qualitative analysis for those systems that do not permit or necessitate an explicit solution.