Mathematical Modeling

Mathematical models are ubiquitous, providing a quantitative framework for understanding, prediction, and decision-making in nearly every aspect of life, ranging from the timing of traffic lights, to the control of the spread of disease, to resource management, to sports.

They also play a fundamental role in all natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences as well.

This course provides an introduction to modeling through in-depth discussions of a series of examples, and hands-on exercises and projects that make use of a range of continuous and discrete mathematical tools. <a href="https://extension.harvard.edu">Harvard Extension School</a> students may not take both <a href="/search/?p=APMA%20S-115" data-action="result-detail" data-group="code:APMA S-115" class="notoffered" title="This course is not being offered in the selected term.">APMA S-115</a> (offered previously) and MATH S-116 for degree or certificate credit.