From Models to Simulations

• Tác giả: Franck Varenne
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0367586621
• ISBN-13: 978-1138065215
• ISBN-13: 978-1315159904
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor & Francis 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (237 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 374944
• Chủ đề: 1. Alfred Nordmann; 2. History of Science; 3. History of Technology; 4. History since 1800; 5. Manipulation; 6. Measurement; 7. Modern History; 8. Philosophy of Science; 9. Philosophy of Technology; 10. Rob Langham; 11. Scientific Ethics; 12. Visualisation; 13. Humanities; 14. Impact of science & technology on society; 15. Philosophy of science

Tóm tắt

This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s. Using historical, comparative and interpretative case studies from a range of disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the case of plant studies, the author shows how and why computers, data treatment devices and programming languages have occasioned a gradual but irresistible and massive shift from mathematical models to computer simulations.