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This is a timeline of key developments in '''[[computational mathematics]]'''.

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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|url=http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?15-12.pdf}}. Accessed 5 may 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>