Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even: édition anglaise - Couverture souple

Gramelsberger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3037340932 ISBN 13 : 9783037340936

Editeur : Diaphanes, 2011

Synopsis

Ce volume explore l'histoire et l'influence de l'informatique sur la science, en particulier comme outil de simulation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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. Contributors: Peter Bexte, Thomas Brandstetter, Johann Feichter, Peter Galison, Gabriele Gramelsberger, David Alan Grier, Sybille Krämer, Thomas Lange, Johannes Lenhard, Erika Mansnerus, Renate Mayntz, and Sergio Sismondo.

Revue de presse

»Wem das zu abgehoben scheint, der möge an die nächste Aschewolke im internationalen Luftraum denken oder an konkurrierende Modelle der Erderwärmung: Die Simulation und ihre Algorithmen bestimmen eben mitunter im Wortsinn, mit welcher Wirklichkeit wir rechnen. Weshalb man sich die Sach schon ein wenig näher ansehen kann.« (Helmut Mayer, FAZ)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Diaphanes
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3037340932
• ISBN 13: 9783037340936
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible