Scientific Computing in Great Britain

Womersley, J. R.

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“…12 He soon wrote a paper for the journal Mathematical Tables and Aids to Computation titled "Scientific Computing in Great Britain" that summarized the precomputer state of numerical computing in Britain, giving prominence to the work of Comrie and showing that he was well aware of what had been achieved. 13 When he returned from the US in May 1945, the new NPL division and Womersley's appointment were announced. He set up the Mathematics Division with four sections: General Computing Section, Punched Card Section, Differential Analyser Section, and Statistics Section.…”

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John Womersley: Applied Mathematician and Pioneer of Modern Computing

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Entwicklungsbericht und Literaturzusammenstellung über Ziffern-Rechenautomaten

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A modification of the Aitken-Neville linear iterative procedures for polynomial interpolation

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1954

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Conclusions. It can be seen from the table that the process converges with fair rapidity. Further calculations by the author indicate that the results obtained after three trials contain an error of less than .001 for y(£). If the usual methods of the calculus of variations were employed the resulting non-linear differential equation would presumably have to be solved by finite difference methods anyway and it does not appear that this would be as easy a computation to carry through as the above.In writing (3), first order divided differences have been used, these being the simplest and at the same time adequate. Higher order expressions for the derivatives may be employed but will in general result in more complicated recurrence relations. The iterative procedure for the solution apparently must be devised anew for each different class of problems.

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Scientific Computing in Great Britain

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John Womersley: Applied Mathematician and Pioneer of Modern Computing

John Womersley: Applied Mathematician and Pioneer of Modern Computing

Entwicklungsbericht und Literaturzusammenstellung über Ziffern-Rechenautomaten

A modification of the Aitken-Neville linear iterative procedures for polynomial interpolation

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