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Michael Weisberg, “Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World” (Oxford UP, 2013)

New Books in Science

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Three kinds of models: concrete, computational, mathematical

Weisberg distinguishes concrete, computational, and mathematical models and gives examples including the Bay model and Schelling.

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