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Technological concepts and mathematical models in the evolution of modern engineering systems

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This collection of historical research studies covers the evolution of technology as knowledge, the emergence of an autonomous engineering science in the Industrial Age, the idea of scientific managment of production and operation systems, and the interaction between mathematical models and technological concepts. The book is published with the support of the UNESCO Venice Office - Regional Office for Science & Technology in Europe as an activity of the Project: The evolution of events, concepts and models in engineering systems.

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English
Pages
246

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Table of Contents

Introduction / M. Lucertini [and others]
Part I. Mathematical methods and techological thought: historical aspects. Mathematical methods in preindustrial technology and machines / Eberhard Knobloch ; Organization and mathematics: a look into the prehistory of industrial engineering / Ana Millán Gasca ; Technological innovation and new mathematics: van der Pol and the birth of nonlinear dynamics / Giorgio Israel ; Transferring formal and mathematical tools from war management to political, technological, and social intervention (1940-1960) / Amy Dahan, Dominique Pestre
Part II. Technological knowledge and mathematical models in the analysis, planning, and control of modern engineering systems. Technolgical concepts and mathematical models in the evolution of control engineering / Stuart Bennett ; Feedback: a technique and a "tool for thought" / Antonio Lepschy, Umberto Viaro ; Adequacy of mathematical models in control theory, physics, and environmental science / Evgenii F. Mishchenko [and others] ; The development of systems science: concepts of knowledge as seen from the Western and Eastern perspective / Andrzej Wierzbicki ; Coping with complexity in the management of organized systems / Mario Lucertini.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 2, 2014).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
620/.001/1
Library of Congress
TA168 .T42 2004eb, QA21-27

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource (xvii, 246 pages)
Number of pages
246

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27091139M
Internet Archive
technologicalcon00knob
ISBN 10
3034879512
ISBN 13
9783034879514, 9783034896337
OCLC/WorldCat
867034849

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