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* Using computational investigations of the [[3 body problem]], Minovitch formulates the [[gravity assist]] method.<ref>Minovitch, Michael: "A method for determining interplanetary free-fall reconnaissance trajectories," Jet Propulsion Laboratory Technical Memo TM-312-130, pages 38-44 (23 August 1961).</ref><ref>Christopher Riley and Dallas Campbell, Oct 22, 2012. [http://www.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fscience-environment-20033940&ei=j-29UZ6sNIexPInBgfAG&usg=AFQjCNEj30660hWJWTpfDJohrZek5KxAFA "The maths that made Voyager possible"]. BBC News Science and Environment. Recovered 16 Jun 2013.</ref>
* Molecular dynamics was invented independently by [[Aneesur Rahman]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rahman|first=A|title=Correlations in the Motion of Atoms in Liquid Argon|journal=Phys Rev|year=1964|volume=136|issue=2A|pages=A405–A41|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.136.A405|bibcode = 1964PhRv..136..405R }}</ref>
* Cooley and Tukey re-invent the [[Fast Fourier transform]] (voted one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century), an algorithm first discovered by [[Gauss]].
* [[Martin Kruskal|Kruskal]] and [[Norman Zabusky|Zabusky]] follow up the [[Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem]] with further numerical experiments, and coin the term "soliton".<ref>Zabusky, N. J.; Kruskal, M. D. (1965). "Interaction of 'solitons' in a collisionless plasma and the recurrence of initial states". Phys. Rev. Lett. 15 (6): 240–243. Bibcode 1965PhRvL..15..240Z. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.240.</ref><ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soliton ; retrieved 3 nov 2012.</ref>
* [[Edward Lorenz]] discovers the [[butterfly effect]] on a computer, attracting interest in [[chaos theory]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lorenz|first=Edward N.|title=Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow|journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |pages=130–141|year=1963|url=http://www.nd.edu/~powers/ame.60611/lorenz.article.pdf|doi=10.1175/1520-0469(1963)020<0130:DNF>2.0.CO;2|volume=20|issue=2|bibcode = 1963JAtS...20..130L }}</ref>
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