Dr. Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay is a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Indian School of Mines. He has been teaching applied mathematics and mathematical modeling courses for more than 16 years. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the International Society of Computational Ecology, Hong Kong. His research areas include chaotic dynamics of real-world situations, population dynamics for marine and terrestrial ecosystems, disease dynamics, reaction–diffusion modeling, environmental modeling, differential equations, and dynamical systems theory. Dr. Satteluri R.K. Iyengar is the dean of academic affairs and a professor of mathematics at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering & Technology. He was previously a professor and head of the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi. He has been a professor for more than 22 years, has published numerous journal articles, and has been a recipient of several awards. His research areas encompass numerical analysis and mathematical modeling.
"""The presentation is so clear that anyone with even a basic mathematical background can study it and get a clear picture. ... Unlike many other similar textbooks, a rich reference section is given at the end of each chapter. The cautious selection of worked out examples and exercises throughout the book is superb. For anyone with previous experience of having run into books in mathematical modeling and chaotic dynamics that rapidly move into advanced mathematical content, the book offers a pleasant recourse at an introductory level and therefore can be very inspirational."" -MAA Reviews, December 2014"