Books by Neil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Gershenfeld

This 1998 book is about the nature of mathematical modeling, and about the kinds of techniques that are useful for modeling. This essential text will be of great value to anyone working in any quantitative or semi-quantitative discipline, including computer science, physics, applied mathematics, engineering, biology, economics and the social sciences, from undergraduates to leading researchers.

In this companion volume to his highly successful Nature of Mathematical Modeling, Gershenfeld explores the devices we use to collect, transform, transmit, and interact with electronic information to help both physical and computer scientists see beyond the conventional division between hardware and software to understand implications of physical theory for information manipulation.