Download or read book The Birth of Numerical Analysis written by Adhemar Bultheel and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1947 paper by John von Neumann & Herman Goldstine, 'Numerical Inverting of Matrices of High Order', is considered as the birth certificate of numerical analysis. Since its publication, the evolution of this domain has been enormous. This book collects contributions by researchers who have lived through this evolution.