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A very thorough introduction to some now classical topics can be found in James D. Murray's now two-volume book published by Springer. Expect lots of ODE's and PDE's in that one.

As far as more exotic math is concerned, a complete overview would be difficult: it seems people throw everything they have and see what works. I've seen some interesting talks involving combinatorics, others involving algebraic geometry.