The birth of numerical analysis (World Scientific, 2010)
Proceedings of a symposium held at the Department of Computer Science of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, October 29-30, 2007
"The 1947 paper by John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, "Numerical Inverting of Matrices of High Order" (Bulletin of the AMS, Nov. 1947), is considered as the birth certificate of numerical analysis. Since its publication, the evolution of this domain has been enormous. This book is a unique collection of contributions by researchers who have lived through this evolution, testifying about their personal experiences and sketching the evolution of their respective subdomains since the early years"--Jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
Some pioneers of extrapolation methods / Claude Brezinski -- Very basic multidimensional extrapolation quadrature / James N. Lyness -- Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations : early days / John C. Butcher -- Interview with Herbert Bishop Keller / Hinke M. Osinga -- A personal perspective on the history of the numerical analysis of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind / Kendall Atkinson -- Memoires on building a general purpose numerical algorithms library / Brian Ford -- Recent trends in high performance computing / Jack J. Dongarra ... [et al.] -- Nonnegativity constraints in numerical analysis / Donghui Chen and Robert J. Plemmons -- On nonlinear optimization since 1959 / M.J.D. Powell -- The history and development of numerical analysis in Scotland : a personal perspective / G. Alistair Watson -- Remembering Philip Rabinowitz / Philip J. Davis and Aviezri S. Fraenkel -- My early experiences with scientific computation / Philip J. Davis -- Applications of Chebyshev polynomials : from theoretical kinematics to practical computations / Robert Piessens