From Models to Simulations

Franck Varenne (University of Rouen, France), Karen Turnbull

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Routledge
30 June 2020

History of science

Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience

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.

By: Franck Varenne (University of Rouen France)
Translated by: Karen Turnbull
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367586621
ISBN 10: 0367586622
Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Franck Varenne is Associate Professor of philosophy of science at the University of Rouen (Normandy – France) and associate researcher at IHPST (CNRS – Paris). His research focuses on the history and epistemology of formal models and computer simulations in contemporary science, especially in biology and geography. He has published around fifty-five articles and chapters. He has also published eight books and co-edited three collective books.