Scientific Computing

Survey of the historical development of the most important numerical methods and electronic computers covering the whole field of scientific computing Brief comments regarding the life of some of the key people Portraits or photos of many researchers having made important contributions to scientific computing

Bertil Gustafsson is Professor at Uppsala University and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His main area of research is the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Earlier books: B. Gustafsson, H.-O. Kreiss, J. Oliger: Time-Dependent Problems and Difference Methods, Whiley (1995). B. Gustafsson: High Order Difference Methods for Time Dependent PDE. Springer (2008). B.Gustafsson: Fundamentals of Scientific Computing. Springer (2011). B. Gustafsson, H.-O. Kreiss, J. Oliger: Time-Dependent Problems and Difference Methods, 2nd ed., Whiley (2013).

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.