Full Description
| Responsibility Statement | editors, Chris Bissell, Chris Dillon |
| Language Code | eng |
| Edition | |
| Collection Source | Springer |
| Cataloguing Source | LibUI eng rda |
| Content Type | text (rdacontent) |
| Media Type | computer (rdamedia) |
| Carrier Type | online resource (rdacarrier) |
| Physical Description | xiv, 234 pages : illustration |
| Link | http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-25209-9 |
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Abstract
Themes that are highlighted include :
- the role of language : the models developed for engineering design have resulted in new ways of talking about technological systems
- communities of practice : related to the previous point, particular engineering communities have particular ways of sharing and developing knowledge
- graphical (re)presentation : engineers have developed many ways of reducing quite complex mathematical models to more simple representations
- reification : highly abstract mathematical models are turned into ?objects? that can be manipulated almost like components of a physical system
- machines : not only the currently ubiquitous digital computer, but also older analogue devices, slide rules, physical models, wind tunnels and other small-scale simulators, as well as mechanical, electrical and electronic analogue computers
- mathematics and modelling as a bridging tool between disciplines