Scientific Computing A Historical Perspective /

• Main Author: Gustafsson, Bertil (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 17
• Subjects: Computer mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Computers.; Computer science-Mathematics.; Computer hardware.; Mathematics.; History.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Artificial Intelligence.; Theory of Computation.; Mathematics of Computing.; Computer Hardware.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

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 scientifi...

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.