NDLI: The pioneer days of scientific computing in Switzerland

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Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Gutknecht, M.
Abstract	Scientific computing was established in Switzerland by E. Stiefel, assisted by H. Rutishauser, A.P. Speiser, and others. We cover the years from the foundation of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the ETH in 1948 to the completion of the ERMETH, the electronic computer built in this institute, in 1956/57. In this period, Stiefel's team also solved a large number of real-world computational problems on another computer, Zuse's Z4, rented by the institute. Along with this work went major contributions to numerical analysis by Rutishauser and Stiefel, and Rutishauser's seminal work on compiling programs, which was later followed by his strong commitment in ALGOL.We have tried to include some background information and to complement H.R. Schwarz's article [Scw81] on the same subject.
Starting Page	63
Ending Page	69
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897912292
DOI	10.1145/41579.41585
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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The pioneer days of scientific computing in Switzerland