Renowned scientist and inventor Neil Gershenfeld describes how personal fabricators are about to revolutionise the world just as personal computers did a generation ago. What if you could put the manufacturing power of a car plant on your desktop? According to MIT scientist and inventor Neil Gershen[...]

This 1998 book, about the nature and techniques of mathematical modeling, is oriented towards simple efficient implementations on computers. The text is in three sections. The first covers exact and approximate analytical techniques; the second, numerical methods; the third, model inference based on[...]