Accession Number:

ADA183115

Title:

Comments on the Development of Computational Mathematics in Czechoslovakia and in the USSR.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK INST FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Personal Author(s):

• Babuska,I.

Report Date:

1987-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

This document presents an invited lecture at the ACM Conference on the History of Scientific and Numeric Computations, May 13-15, 1987, Princeton, New Jersey. It present some basic subjective observations about the history of numerical methods in Czechoslovakia and USSR up to the mid 60s. Author Keywords Freezing Elasticity Error control Variational methods Finite difference theory Differential equations.

Descriptors:

• *NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
• HISTORY
• SYMPOSIA
• COMPUTATIONS
• MATHEMATICS
• ELASTIC PROPERTIES
• FINITE DIFFERENCE THEORY
• COMPUTATIONS
• NUMBERS
• VARIATIONAL METHODS
• CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• CONTROL
• ERRORS
• FREEZING
• USSR

Subject Categories:

• Numerical Mathematics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE