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The development of methods of using computers for calculations in the early fifties at Cambridge and Illinois Universities. They are the recollections of a participant.

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 ...

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 back-ground of the Scandinavian computer journal B I T will be outlined, in particular with respect to computational demands in science, technology, industry and defense. The history of B I T will be described and related to the evolution of ...

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.

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, ...

*The preparation of this paper was supported in part by The National Science Foundation through Grant DCR - 8518722, by the Department of Energy through Grant A505-81ER10954, and the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Development through ...