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  1. Proceedings of the ACM conference on History of scientific and numeric computation (HSNC '87)
  2. Mathematical software and ACM Publications
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Keynote address—Remembrance of things past
Early numerical analysis in the United Kingdom
The prehistory and ancient history of computation at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards
Programmed computing at the Universities of Cambridge and Illinois in the early fifties
Mathematical software and ACM Publications
The pioneer days of scientific computing in Switzerland
Conjugacy and gradients in variational theory and analysis
BIT—a child of the computer
Comments on postwar development of computational mathematics in some countries of Eastern Europe
How the FFT gained acceptance
The development of ODE methods: a symbiosis between hardware and numerical analysis
An historical review of iterative methods
Some historic comments on finite elements
J. H. Wilkinson's work and influence on matrix computations
The work of George Forsythe and his students

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Mathematical software and ACM Publications

Content Provider ACM Digital Library
Author Rice, J. R.
Abstract Mathematical software started as a scientific activity almost as soon as serious scientific computing. The field was brought into focus at the symposium Mathematical Software held at Purdue University on April 1-3, 1970. The symposium's organizing committee was John Rice (chairman), Robert Ashenhurst, Charles Lawson, Stuart Lynn and Joseph Traub. It was sponsored by ACM and SIGNUM and financially supported by the Office of Naval Research. Mathematical software was defined then as the set of algorithms in the area of mathematics and it was noted that this definition is much broader than traditional numerical analysis. Even today there are large areas of mathematical software which have yet to be studied systematically or seriously (e.g., geometric algorithms).The first chapter of the symposium proceedings, Mathematical Software [Rice, 1971] presents a brief history of the field up to that point. It is noted there that the first mathematical software published was an EDVAC machine language program to convert base 10 integers to binary; it was in Mathematical Tables and Aids to Computations (now called Mathematics of Computation) on pages 427-431 of Volume 3, 1949. Further noted is that the book [Wilkes, Wheeler and Gill, 1951] contains a thorough discussion of the mathematical software (subroutine library) for the EDSAC. The second chapter of Mathematical Software is The Distribution and Sources of Mathematical Software which summarizes the state of the field as of 1970. The recent book, Sources and Development of Mathematical Software [Cowell, 1984] contains as first chapter the essay Observations on the Mathematical Software Effort by W. J. Cody. Many of the other 13 chapters of Cowell's book contain historical remarks about specific mathematical software areas.Chapter 3 of Mathematical Software is The Challenge for Mathematical Software which raises many points still completely unresolved. It concludes with recommendations for the establishment of:A Journal of Mathematical SoftwareA Center or Focal Point for Mathematical SoftwareThe implementation of the first recommendation is the focal point of this article, the other recommendation has yet to be carried out. Perhaps mathematical software is now too big for a “Center” to cover the whole field, but a focal point would still serve a very important scientific function.
Starting Page 59
Ending Page 62
Page Count 4
File Format PDF
ISBN 0897912292
DOI 10.1145/41579.41584
Language English
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date 1987-10-01
Publisher Place New York
Access Restriction Subscribed
Content Type Text
Resource Type Article
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