Numerical software: science or alchemy
C. William Gear · 1979
This is a summary of the Forsythe lecture presented at the Computer Science Conference, Dayton, Ohio, in February 1979. It examines the activity called Numerical Software, first to see what distinguishes numerical software from any other form of software and why numerical software is so much more difficult. Then it examines the scientific basis of such software and discusses that is lacking in that basis.