Ways of Thinking, Ways of Seeing: Mathematical and Other Modelling in Engineering and Technology (Hardcover, 2012)

Creating reality.- Dimensional analysis and dimensional reasoning.- Models: what do engineers see in them?.- Metatools for information engineering design.- Early computational modelling: physical models, electrical analogies and analogue computers.- Expanding the concept of 'model': the transfer from technological to human domains within systems.- Visualisations for understanding complex economic systems.- The inner world of models and its epistemic diversity: infectious disease and climate modelling.- Modelling with experience: construal and construction for software.