Simulation and similarity : using models to understand the world
Weisberg, MichaelAuthor
New York : Oxford University Press,
c2013.
'Simulation and Similarity' provides an account of modelling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The book has three main themes: the nature of models, the practice of modelling, and nature of the relationship between models and real-world phenomena.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
'Simulation and Similarity' provides an account of modelling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models. The book has three main themes: the nature of models, the practice of modelling, and nature of the relationship between models and real-world phenomena.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Science
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Sciences - General