[ATHENA] From Models to Simulations - Ouvrage en accès libre

[Franck Varenne <varenne.franck AT orange.fr>]

    Chères et chers collègues,

Cet ouvrage de 2018 est aujourd'hui en accès libre : From Models to Simulations - Routledge - Taylor & Francis - 2018

Bien cordialement,

Franck Varenne

Description: 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.

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Franck Varenne
MCF HDR - Université de Rouen Normandie
Directeur du département de philosophie
Bureau F 407 - Laboratoire ERIAC (UR 4705)
http://eriac.univ-rouen.fr/author/franck-varenne/