At the request of the organizing committee, I would like to share some of my observations and remembrances about the development of computational mathematics in Czechoslovakia and the USSR. My observations will be very subjective and broad in scope.
{"title":"Comments on postwar development of computational mathematics in some countries of Eastern Europe","authors":"I. Babuska","doi":"10.1145/41579.41588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/41579.41588","url":null,"abstract":"At the request of the organizing committee, I would like to share some of my observations and remembrances about the development of computational mathematics in Czechoslovakia and the USSR. My observations will be very subjective and broad in scope.","PeriodicalId":369076,"journal":{"name":"Conference on History of Scientific and Numeric Computation","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126373032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The history of the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations is surveyed from its origins three centuries ago up to the early 1970s. The increasing demands for the solution of ODEs, especially for exterior ballistics and celestial mechanics, has been a primary stimulus of and a significant influence on the early development of computers starting with the analog differential analyzers and continuing to the first wired-program digital computers—whose form foreshadowed future developments in parallel computers. At the same time the hardware has, of course, affected the algorithms used, but this has resulted in surprisingly few innovations in numerical techniques.
{"title":"The development of ODE methods: a symbiosis between hardware and numerical analysis","authors":"C. Gear, R. Skeel","doi":"10.1145/41579.41590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/41579.41590","url":null,"abstract":"The history of the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations is surveyed from its origins three centuries ago up to the early 1970s. The increasing demands for the solution of ODEs, especially for exterior ballistics and celestial mechanics, has been a primary stimulus of and a significant influence on the early development of computers starting with the analog differential analyzers and continuing to the first wired-program digital computers—whose form foreshadowed future developments in parallel computers. At the same time the hardware has, of course, affected the algorithms used, but this has resulted in surprisingly few innovations in numerical techniques.","PeriodicalId":369076,"journal":{"name":"Conference on History of Scientific and Numeric Computation","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128380464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early numerical analysis in the United Kingdom","authors":"L. Fox","doi":"10.1145/41579.41581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/41579.41581","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369076,"journal":{"name":"Conference on History of Scientific and Numeric Computation","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126543583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}