Technological concepts and mathematical models in the evolution of modern engineering systems
Subtitle: controlling, managing, organizing
By: edited by Mario Lucertini, Ana Milán Gasca, Fernando Nicolò
Contributors: Millán Gasca, Ana, editor
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; Imprint: Birkhäuser
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783034879514; 9783034896337
Subjects: Systems engineering; History of Mathematical Sciences; Mathematical models; Mathematisches Modell; Appl. Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Mathematics, general; Geschichte; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Ingenieurwissenschaften; Technik
Description: This collection of historical research studies covers the evolution of technology as knowledge, the emergence of an autonomous engineering science in the Industrial Age, the idea of scientific managment of production and operation systems, and the interaction between mathematical models and technological concepts. The book is published with the support of the UNESCO Venice Office - Regional Office for Science & Technology in Europe as an activity of the Project: The evolution of events, concepts and models in engineering systems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 2, 2014).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / M. Lucertini [and others]; title: Part I. Mathematical methods and techological thought: historical aspects. Mathematical methods in preindustrial technology and machines / Eberhard Knobloch ; Organization and mathematics: a look into the prehistory of industrial engineering / Ana Millán Gasca ; Technological innovation and new mathematics: van der Pol and the birth of nonlinear dynamics / Giorgio Israel ; Transferring formal and mathematical tools from war management to political, technological, and social intervention (1940-1960) / Amy Dahan, Dominique Pestre; title: Part II. Technological knowledge and mathematical models in the analysis, planning, and control of modern engineering systems. Technolgical concepts and mathematical models in the evolution of control engineering / Stuart Bennett ; Feedback: a technique and a "tool for thought" / Antonio Lepschy, Umberto Viaro ; Adequacy of mathematical models in control theory, physics, and environmental science / Evgenii F. Mishchenko [and others] ; The development of systems science: concepts of knowledge as seen from the Western and Eastern perspective / Andrzej Wierzbicki ; Coping with complexity in the management of organized systems / Mario Lucertini.