Reconstructing Reality —— Models, Mathematics, and Simulations

----- 重建现实: 模型、数学与模拟

ISBN: 9780199380275 出版年：2015 页码：345 Morrison, Margaret Oxford University Press

Preface Part One: Mathematics, Explanation and Understanding Chapter One: Abstraction and Idealisation: Understanding via Models Chapter Two: From the Pure to the Concrete: How Mathematics Yields Physical Information Part Two: Where Models Meet the World: Problems and Perspectives Chapter Three: More than Make-Believe: Fictions, Models and Reality Chapter Four: Mediated Knowledge: Representation and The Theory-Model Axis Chapter Five: Making the Best of It: Inconsistent vs. Complementary Models Part Three: Computer Simulation: The New Reality Chapter Six: Why Materiality is Not Enough: Models, Measurement and Computer Simulation Chapter Seven: Legitimating Simulation: Methodological Issues of Verification and Validation. Chapter Eight: Without it there's Nothing: The Necessity of Simulation in the Higgs Search Index