The research is devoted to the study of common for systems of animate and inanimate nature - a person, a group of people, animals, artificial systems - of the quantitative laws of iterative learning (under-stood as repeated repetition of actions, trials, attempts, etc., by a trained system to achieve fixed goal under constant external condi-tions). The main research method is mathematical modeling.
The book (which is a translation from first edition, published in 1998 in Russian) is aimed at specialists in pedagogy, psychology and physiology of humans and animals, control theory, as well as under-graduate and graduate students of relevant specialties.