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  title info:
    title: Scientific Computing
    sub title: A Historical Perspective
  name:
    name part: Gustafsson, Bertil.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 262 p. 84 illus., 31 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores the most significant computational methods and the history of their development. It begins with the earliest mathematical / numerical achievements made by the Babylonians and the Greeks, followed by the period beginning in the 16th century. For several centuries the main scientific challenge concerned the mechanics of planetary dynamics, and the book describes the basic numerical methods of that time. In turn, at the end of the Second World War scientific computing took a giant step forward with the advent of electronic computers, which greatly accelerated the development of numerical methods. As a result, scientific computing became established as a third scientific method in addition to the two traditional branches: theory and experimentation. The book traces numerical methods' journey back to their origins and to the people who invented them, while also briefly examining the development of electronic computers over the years. Featuring 163 references and more than 100 figures, many of them portraits or photos of key historical figures, the book provides a unique historical perspective on the general field of scientific computing - making it a valuable resource for all students and professionals interested in the history of numerical analysis and computing, and for a broader readership alike.
  table of contents: 1 Scientific Computing, an introduction -- 2 Computation far back in time -- 3 The centuries before computers -- 4 The beginning of the computer era -- 5 The establishment of scientific computing as a new discipline -- 6 Impact of numerical analysis and scientific computing -- References.
  note: by Bertil Gustafsson.
  subject:
    topic: Computer mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Computers
  subject:
    topic: Computer science-Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Computer hardware
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Theory of Computation
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics of Computing
  subject:
    topic: Computer Hardware
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  classification: QA71-90
  classification: 518
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 17
  identifier: 9783319698472
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69847-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 181003
    record change date: 20191028152155.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-69847-2