Introduction to Applied Mathematics for Environmental Science

For many years, first as a student and later as a teacher, I have ob­ served graduate students in ecology and other environmental sci­ ences who had been required as undergraduates to take calculus courses. Those courses have often emphasized how to prove theo­ rems about the beautiful, logical structure of calculus, but have ne­ glected applications. Most of the time, the students have come out of such courses with little or no appreciation of how to apply calculus in their own work. Based...