Teaching computational science in a liberal arts environment
G. Michael Schneider, Daniel Schwalbe, Thomas M. Halverson · ACM SIGCSE Bulletin · 1998
Introduction to Computational Science One of the most rapidly growing areas in the physical, natural, and social sciences is computational science--which is, incidentally, not the same as computer science despite their similar sounding names.It is a relatively new discipline that investigates ways to use computers, mathematical modeling, and visualization to solve large-scale scientific problems.The basic paradigm of computational science is: