From science to computational sciences
Subtitle: studies in the history of computing and its influence on today's sciences
By: Gabriele Gramelsberger (ed.).
Contributors: Blankensee-Colloquium (2007 : Berlin, Germany)
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: Qu; Qu (Zurich, Switzerland)
Publisher: Diaphanes
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9783037340936
Subjects: Computer science; Congresses; History; Computer simulation; Computers
Other titles: Studies in the history of computing and its influence on today's sciences
Description: "In 1946 John von Neumann stated that science is stagnant along the entire front of complex problems, proposing the use of largescale computing machines to overcome this stagnation. In other words, Neumann advocated replacing analytical methods with numerical ones. The invention of the computer in the 1940s allowed scientists to realise numerical simulations of increasingly complex problems like weather forecasting, and climate and molecular modelling. Today, computers are widely used as computational laboratories, shifting science toward the computational sciences. By replacing analytical methods with numerical ones, they have expanded theory and experimentation by simulation. During the last decades hundreds of computational departments have been established all over the world and countless computer-based simulations have been conducted. This volume explores the epoch-making influence of automatic computing machines on science, in particular as simulation tools."--Back cover.
Notes: Selection of papers presented at the Blankensee-Colloquium held from 20th-22nd September 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references.