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一、1946 蒙特卡洛方法
[1946: John von Neumann, Stan Ulam, and Nick Metropolis, all at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, cook up the Metropolis algorithm, also known as the Monte Carlo method.]
二、1947 单纯形法
[1947: George Dantzig, at the RAND Corporation, creates the simplex method for linear programming.]
三、1950 Krylov子空间迭代法
[1950: Magnus Hestenes, Eduard Stiefel, and Cornelius Lanczos, all from the Institute for Numerical Analysis at the National Bureau of Standards, initiate the development of Krylov subspace iteration methods.]
四、1951 矩阵计算的分解方法
[1951: Alston Householder of Oak Ridge National Laboratory formalizes the decompositional approach to matrix computations.]
五、1957 优化的Fortran编译器
[1957: John Backus leads a team at IBM in developing the Fortran optimizing compiler.]
六、1959-61 计算矩阵特征值的QR算法
[1959–61: J.G.F. Francis of Ferranti Ltd, London, finds a stable method for computing eigenvalues, known as the QR algorithm.]
七、1962 快速排序算法
[1962: Tony Hoare of Elliott Brothers, Ltd., London, presents Quicksort.]
八、1965 快速傅立叶变换
[1965: James Cooley of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and John Tukey of Princeton University and AT&T Bell Laboratories unveil the fast Fourier transform.]
九、1977 整数关系探测算法
[1977: Helaman Ferguson and Rodney Forcade of Brigham Young University advance an integer relation detection algorithm.]
十、1987 快速多极算法
[1987: Leslie Greengard and Vladimir Rokhlin of Yale University invent the fast multipole algorithm.]
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