Jacek Banasiak studied mathematics at the Technical University of Łódź, obtained his PhD from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, his DSc (habilitation) from the University of Warsaw and received the state title of Professor in Poland in 2007. He is currently a Research Professor in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and an Extraordinary Professor at the Technical University of Łódź. His research interests lie in functional analysis and semigroup theory with application to models arising in natural sciences. He has authored and co-authored five monographs and over 90 papers on these topics.

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• 1. Mathematical toolbox; 2. Basic difference equations models and their analysis; 3. Basic differential equations models; 4. Qualitative theory for a single equation; 5. From discrete to continuous models and back; Bibliography; Index.