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| | | | | by Sven Hammarling and Nick Higham It is often thought that Jim Wilkinson developed backward error analysis because of his early involvement in solving systems of linear equations. In his 1970 Turing lecture [5] he described an experience, during world war II at the Armament Research Department, of solving a system of twelve linear equations | |
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| | | | | I've just finished reading 'Turing's Cathedral,' an absolutely fascinating book on early computing. The book focuses almost entirely on John von Neumann's 'Electronic Computer Project' carried out at the Institute of Advanced Study in the 40's and 50's. In fact, Turing makes only occasional and brief appearances in the book: it's almost entirely a portrait... | |
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| | | | | Let me tell you about a mistake I made recently. Some months ago, I made a few calculations which seemed promising, and I thought they could lead to some new results. When I showed the calculations to my supervisor, he was skeptical, and rightly so. Our project involved some fairly abstract concepts in the theory... | |
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