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== 1940s ==

* Monte Carlo simulation (voted one of the top 10 [[algorithm]]s of the 20th century) invented at Los Alamos by von Neumann, Ulam and Metropolis.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Metropolis|first=N.|title=The Beginning of the Monte Carlo method|journal=Los Alamos Science|year=1987|volume=No. 15, Page 125|page=125–130|url=http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?15-12.pdf}}. Accessed |access-date=5 mayMay 2012.}}</ref><ref>S. Ulam, R. D. Richtmyer, and J. von Neumann(1947). [http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?00329286.pdf Statistical methods in neutron diffusion]. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory report LAMS–551.</ref><ref>N. Metropolis and S. Ulam (1949). The Monte Carlo method. Journal of the American Statistical Association 44:335–341.</ref>

* Dantzig introduces the [[simplex method|simplex algorithm]] (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century).<ref>{{cite web|title=SIAM News, November 1994.|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/SOL/dantzig.html|accessdate=6 June 2012}} Systems Optimization Laboratory, Stanford University Huang Engineering Center (site host/mirror).</ref>

* First [[Computational Fluid Dynamics|hydro simulations]] at Los Alamos occurred.<ref>Richtmyer, R. D. (1948). Proposed Numerical Method for Calculation of Shocks. Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory LA-671.</ref><ref>A Method for the Numerical Calculation of Hydrodynamic Shocks.