Author : Franck Varenne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351660926
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Book Synopsis From Models to Simulations by : Franck Varenne
Download or read book From Models to Simulations written by Franck Varenne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.