Simulation and similarity : using models to understand the world /
'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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | '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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 190 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-185). |
| ISBN: | 0199333009 9780199333004 0199933677 9780199933679 |