At its core, computational engineering is engineering from first principles. Rather than the engineer's job being to develop geometry, in computational engineering the engineer's job is to determine the specifications and parameters which will drive geometry and provide them to the computer.
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres Review
That the sun lies at the center of the solar system with the planets moving about it and the whole arrangement determined by gravity seems obvious to us today, but that is because we are surrounding by depictions of the solar system in that configuration.
Euclid’s Elements Review
If I were ever teaching a geometry class, I would not go to McDougal-Little or Pearson or the other big-name textbook publishers, but would instead direct my students to obtain a copy of Euclid’s Elements, and build my curriculum around it.
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