The authors tell these stories by guiding readers through the very words of the mathematicians at the heart of these events, providing an insightinto the art of approaching mathematical problems.

Time-discrete dynamical systems models have long been used in biology, particularly in population dynamics. The models mainly focused on here are also assumed to have a finite set of possible states for each variable.

The aim of this volume is to explain some of the biology and the computational and mathematical challenges with the modeling and simulation of biological networks.