The promise and limits of computer modeling
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Singapore :
World Scientific ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The jade mountain
- 2. What are models?
- 3. The modeling process
- 4. An object-oriented universe
- 5. The crossroads of theory and experiment
- 6. Modeling the appearances
- 7. Laplace's mirage or the impossibility of the exact calculation of the world
- 8. Climates of fact
- 9. Calculating war and peace
- 10. From the past into the future: is historical simulation possible?
- 11. Virtual reality...and reality