Wandering significance : an essay on conceptual behavior
Livre imprimé - Wilson Mark, cop. 2006
Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems c...
A vast machine : computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming
Livre imprimé - Edwards Paul N., cop. 2010
Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation..... Edwards argues...
Patterns of change : linguistic innovations in the development of classical mathematics
Livre imprimé - KVasz Ladislav, cop. 2008
This book offers a reconstruction of linguistic innovations in the history of mathematics; innovations which changed the ways in which mathematics was done, understood ...
The brokered world : go-betweens and global intelligence, 1770-1820
Livre imprimé, 2009
This book offers detailed consideration of forms of knowledge production and circulation at a key moment in the development of global scientific, commercial and politic...
Einstein's unification
Livre imprimé - Dongen Jeroen van, 2010
The author argues that Einstein believed he could find a unified theory of all of nature's forces by repeating the methods he thought he had used when he formulated gen...
Modèles, simulations, systèmes
Livre imprimé, cop. 2008
Ce numéro est issu à la fois d'un colloque qui a porté sur le rôle de la modélisation en biologie et d'un séminaire de recherche. L'accent est mis sur la montée en puis...