Talk:Computational mathematics

message: The intro of this article is too narrow. It reads like the intro about computational science and engineering (CSE) rather than computational mathematics. As correctly listed further below in the article, computational mathematics also includes "computational pure mathematics", e.g., computing used in mathematical research itself (computational number theory, computational group theory, computational algebraic geometry, automated proof checking or theorem provers, ...).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.132.210.127 (talk) 07:52, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro too narrow

message: I have split off all that NSF stuff that User:JJL edited out into a separate article, and added some explanations there. Computational mathematics deserves a separate article anyway, I just did not think it would be so soon. Jmath666 05:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copied from [[Talk:Applied_mathematics]]

message: I have marked the origin by early 1950s with . I also think it is something like that - or sometime between 1950 and 1980 - but I'd like to have a reference. Jmath666 04:41, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I took that line to refer less to the origin of the term than to the modern field which I'll place with James H. Wilkinson etc. The term is both far older and in other ways newer. Computational science I'd place more to the 80s, personally. JJL 13:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Right now this article mostly argues about what, if anything, the term means. JJL 00:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

text: No further help seems likely to come from the WikiProject. JJL 21:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I think Mathematics of Computation changed to that name from its earlier name (something like 'Mathematical Tables and Aids'... not that, but along those lines) in the 1950s, which supports the article's original assertion.  CRGreathouse (t | c) 04:56, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  According to JSTOR, it was called Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation until 1959. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 13:40, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's it.  That seems to support an origin <= 1959.  I think there's a letter from the editor in the first issue of Mathematics of Computation (under that name) that describes the rationale for the name change, and it may have used the term "computational mathematics" explicitly (or not). Maybe I'll look it up tomorrow; it's late now. CRGreathouse (t | c) 04:44, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins of the term Computational mathematics

message: Before my edit, the article was not about computational mathematics, but about computational applied mathematics. Presently, in the mathematical community computational mathematics refers, more specifically, to the direct interaction between mathematics and computation.
I was tempted by a move request, but, as this article is a stub (or a WP:broad concept article), and computational mathematics (properly speaking) seems not be covered in Wikipedia, it is better to expand the article for distinguishing the two meanings. I have tried this in a new introductory paragraph, but this clearly requires to be extended and completed. D.Lazard (talk) 09:21, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of the article