How to Grasp an Abstraction: Mathematical Models and Their Vicissitudes Between 1850 and 1950. Introduction

Michael Friedman; Karin Krauthausen

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How to Grasp an Abstraction: Mathematical Models and Their Vicissitudes Between 1850 and 1950. Introduction

Michael Friedman^*, Karin Krauthausen

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The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas

Humboldt University of Berlin

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What is a model? Today, this question can only be answered either with a high degree of abstraction or generality, or with the most specific and precise contextualization, since the concept of the model and the practice of modeling are ubiquitous—in all the sciences and arts, in engineering and design.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Trends in the History of Science
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	1-49
Number of pages	49
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97833-4_1
State	Published - 2022

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Name	Trends in the History of Science
ISSN (Print)	2297-2951
ISSN (Electronic)	2297-296X

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	EXC 2025-390648296

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