On science and computation Wednesday, 9 September, 2009
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I argue that computation and prediction have always been the engine behind scientific progress. The computational tools available in various epochs have therefore played a central role in shaping our view of reality. Since we are currently witnessing a shift from the pen/paper/calculus computational toolbox to the computer-aided computational toolbox, I argue that it is an appropriate time to reevaluate the received wisdom about scientific reality. It is time to shift away from the differential equation mind-set which has prevailed since Newton, and towards a numerical computation mind-set, for reasons of both pragmatism and principle.
The complete post is available in pdf format by clicking here.
In the spirit of “a picture is worth a thousand words”, the whole pdf linked above may be considered as nothing more than an extensive caption for Fig. 1 of the following article by Enzo Tonti:
E. Tonti, Finite formulation of the electromagnetic field, PIER vol. 32, pp. 1-44.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Alexandru Ioan Căbuz 2009.
