Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Modeling The World

In the lecture notes about "Modeling The World," I learned that pretty much anything and everything that surrounds us can be modeled. Although some items may be extremely complex to model if you just attempt to follow the series of steps described in the notes nearly any problem found in our environment can be modeled.

Developing models can be extremely complex and difficult to create, however once development is completed a model can be very beneficial in explaining phenomena that occur in the world around us. Those who develop models such as Fibonacci or Hertz are regarded as geniuses and they models they create are considered stunning revelations. Without the development of models occurrences in our world would be very difficult to understand and explain.

1 comment:

Bharat said...

I agree, some things can be extremely complicated to model-take the weather for example!Also, the importance of Hertz's work was that he gave us a general framework using which any model can be constructed.

--Bharat