Research Catalog

Title

Technological concepts and mathematical models in the evolution of modern engineering systems : controlling, managing, organizing / edited by Mario Lucertini, Ana Milán Gasca, Fernando Nicolò.

Publication

Basel, Switzerland ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Lucertini, M. (Mario)
• Millán Gasca, Ana.
• Nicolò, F.

Description

xvii, 246 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Systems engineering > Mathematical models

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / M. Lucertini ... [et al.] -- PART I. MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND TECHNOLOGICAL 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 -- Trasferring 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 -- Technological 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 ... [et al.] -- The development of systems science: concepts of knowledge as seen from the Western and Eastern perpective / Andrzej Wierzbicki -- Coping with complexity in the management of organized systems / Mario Lucertini.

ISBN

• 376436940X (alk. paper)
• 081766940X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003056021

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries