User:Boris Tsirelson/Sandbox1: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Boris Tsirelson No edit summary |
imported>Boris Tsirelson No edit summary |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
partial differential equation in 2 or 3 independent variables numerically." Quoted from: "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" by John von Neumann, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.27-75, 1993.</ref> | partial differential equation in 2 or 3 independent variables numerically." Quoted from: "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" by John von Neumann, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.27-75, 1993.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 14:31, 29 April 2010
Ordinary differential equations can be solved numerically by analog computers, but partial differential equations cannot, which was very important for von Neumann when building the first computer of the so-called von Neumann architecture.[1]
![[1]](http://lh5.ggpht.com/_2qmjr1uPSSQ/Sr03qlXp4UI/AAAAAAAAACU/hC31rInVVSI/ibmlogo.jpg){kind=link}
- ↑ "1.2 An automatic computing system is a (usually highly composite) device, which can carry out instructions to perform calculations of a considerable order of complexity—e.g. to solve a non-linear partial differential equation in 2 or 3 independent variables numerically." Quoted from: "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" by John von Neumann, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp.27-75, 1993.