Computer Science And Numerical Analysis

ABSTRACT

Until the advent of computers, numerical analysis was not considered an attractive area of study. The early computers, designed as they were to attack some of the nation's pressing engineering and scientific problems, sparked an enormous interest in the use and study of numerical algorithms, an interest which has continued over the past 25 years. During the fifties this interest was nurtured largely by the industrial research community rather than the academic community which limited itself to offering an occasional course in Numerical Analysis. In this period it is safe to say that numerical analysts were treated like second class citizens in the mathematics department where they were normally located.

REFERENCES

• 1: Curriculum 68, CACM, V.11 #3, March 1968
• 2: Computer Science Curricula, SIGCSE Bulletin, June 1977
• 3: Numerical Computation, Ch. 7 of the COSERS Report (Computer Science and Engineering Study), to be published by MIT Press, 1978
• 4: Samuel Daniel Conte , Carl W. De Boor, Elementary Numerical Analysis: An Algorithmic Approach, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1980

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

Additional Classification:
  G. Mathematics of Computing
  G.1 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Curriculum

General Terms:
Theory