Timeline of computational mathematics: Difference between revisions

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== 1980s ==

* [[Fast multipole method]] invented by Rokhlin and GreengaardGreengard (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century).<ref>L. Greengard, The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems, MIT, Cambridge, (1987).</ref><ref>Rokhlin, Vladimir (1985). "Rapid Solution of Integral Equations of Classic Potential Theory." J. Computational Physics Vol. 60, pp. 187–207.</ref><ref>L. Greengard and V. Rokhlin, "A fast algorithm for particle simulations," J. Comput. Phys., 73 (1987), no. 2, pp. 325–348.</ref>

==1990s==

* The appearance of the first research grids using [[volunteer computing]] – [[GIMPS]] (1996), [[distributed.net]] (1997) and [[Seti@Home]] (1999).