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Most of the literature on mathematical modelling has been devoted to the natural sciences and economics; comparatively little has been written on the specific characteristics of modelling for engineering and technology. This chapter will briefly examine some such specifics in the context of information engineering, by which is meant here the engineering disciplines of electronics, telecommunications, signal processing and control. It is claimed that there are some very significant differences between modelling for engineering—at least for information engineering—and modelling in the natural sciences.
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Parts of this chapter draw on material presented in much greater detail in Chapters 3 and 4 of Bissell and Dillon (2012).
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Bissell, C. (2015). Electronics and Information Engineering: A New Approach to Modelling 1880–1950. In: Pisano, R. (eds) A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9645-3_1
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