Ways of Thinking, Ways of Seeing Mathematical and other Modelling in Engineering and Technology /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bissell, Chris (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Dillon, Chris (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Σειρά: Automation, Collaboration, & E-Services, 1
• Θέματα: Engineering.; System theory.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Robotics.; Automation.; Robotics and Automation.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Systems Theory, Control.

This fascinating book examines some of the characteristics of technological/engineering models that are likely to be unfamiliar to those who are interested primarily in the history and philosophy of science and mathematics, and which differentiate technological models from scientific and mathematica...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Creating reality
• Dimensional analysis and dimensional reasoning
• Models: what do engineers see in them?
• Metatools for information engineering design
• Early computational modelling: physical models, electrical analogies and analogue computers
• Expanding the concept of ‘model’: the transfer from technological to human domains within systems
• Visualisations for understanding complex economic systems
• The inner world of models and its epistemic diversity: infectious disease and climate modelling
• Modelling with experience: construal and construction for software.