Mathematical Modeling and Simulation, 2nd Edition
by Kai Velten, Dominik M. Schmidt, Katrin Kahlen
Preface
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
R.W. Hamming [1]
“Everyone is an artist” was the central message of the famous twentieth‐century artist Joseph Beuys. “Everyone models and simulates” is the central message of this book. Mathematical modeling and simulation is a fundamental method in engineering and science, and it is absolutely valid to say that everybody uses it (even those of us who are not aware of doing so). The question is not whether to use this method or not, but rather how to use it effectively.
This completely revised and substantially extended second edition answers the most important questions in the field of modeling: What is a mathematical model? What types of models exist? Which model is appropriate ...
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