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A History of scientific computing / edited by Stephen G. Nash.

Title
A History of scientific computing / edited by Stephen G. Nash.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : ACM Press ; Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1990.

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Additional Authors
  • ACM Conference on the History of Scientific and Numeric Computation (1987 : Princeton, N.J.)
  • Nash, Stephen.
Description
xix, 359 p. : ill., ports.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
ACM Press history series
Uniform Title
ACM Press history series.
Subject
  • Electronic data processing > History
  • Science > History
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Based on papers presented at the Conference on the History of Scientific and Numeric Computation, held in Princeton, N.J., 1987.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Remembrance of things past / Herman H. Goldstine -- The contribution of J. H. Wilkinson to numerical analysis / B. N. Parlett -- The influence of George Forsythe and his students / James Varah -- Howard H. Aiken and the computer / I. Bernard Cohen -- Particles in their self-consistent fields : from Hartree's differential analyzer to cray machines / Oscar Buneman -- Fluid dynamics, reactor computations, and surface representation / Garrett Birkhoff -- The development of ODE methods : a symbiosis between hardware and numerical analysis / C. W. Gear and R. D. Skeel -- A personal retrospection of reservoir simulation / Donald W. Peaceman -- How the FFT gained acceptance / James W. Cooley -- Origins of the simplex method / George B. Dantzig -- Historical comments on finite elements / J. Tinsley Oden -- Conjugacy and gradients / Magnus R. Hestenes -- A historical review of iterative methods / David M. Young -- Shaping the evolution of numerical analysis in the computer age : the SIAM thrust / I. Edward Block -- Reminiscences on the University of Michigan summer schools, the Gatlinburg Symposia, and Numerische Mathematik / Richard S. Varga -- The origin of Mathematics of Computation and some personal recollections / Eugene Isaacson -- Mathematical software and ACM publications / John R. Rice -- BIT-- a child of the computer / Carl-Erik Fröberg -- The Los Alamos Experience, 1943-1954 / N. Metropolis -- The prehistory and early history of computation at the U. S. National Bureau of Standards / John Todd -- Programmed computing at the Universities of Cambridge and Illinois in the early fifties / David J. Wheeler -- Early numerical analysis in the United Kingdom / L. Fox -- The pioneer days of scientific computing in Switzerland / Martin H. Gutknecht -- The development of computational mathematics in Czechoslovakia and the USSR / I. Babuška -- The contribution of Leningrad mathematicians to the development of numerical linear algebra, 1950-1986 / V. N. Kublanovskaya.
ISBN
0201508141
LCCN
^^^90000006^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library