Models Of Discovery by Herbert A. Simon
And Other Topics in the Methods of Science
A rigorous yet accessible exploration of how scientific and inventive breakthroughs can be understood as information-processing activities, showing that discovery can be modeled as heuristic search through problem spaces guided by representation, constraints, and selective evaluation; the essays combine theoretical analysis, empirical examples, and computer-based models to argue that creativity and insight arise from structured processes—not mere chance—and that clarifying those processes illuminates the nature of hypothesis formation, problem restructuring, and the role of computational simulation in studying human thought.
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- 1977
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