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Comments on postwar development of computational mathematics in some countries of Eastern Europe

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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.

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        HSNC '87: Proceedings of the ACM conference on History of scientific and numeric computation
        October 1987
        150 pages
        ISBN:0897912292
        DOI:10.1145/41579

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