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Chapter 11: A Conversation with Leonard Smith
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Abstract:
Can you describe your field briefly?
I would say we work at the interface between models and reality, trying to get observations of the real world into the model-land, and then interpreting simulations in model-land so as to say something about the real world, usually something about the future. My work draws from many different traditional disciplines and often focuses on nonlinearity, on how the mathematics of nonlinear systems differs from that of linear systems. If there is a common thread, I guess it is in the attempt to see to what extent our best theories, in combination with carefully chosen observations, tell us about reality.
