From Models to Simulations

By Franck Varenne

Book Overview

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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138065218
• ISBN13: 9781138065215
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"