Mathematics of Computation

Abstract

Beginning with the January 1960 issue, the title of Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation has been changed to Mathematics of Computation.The new name was unanimously adopted by the Editorial Committee in order to reflect the broadened scope of the Journal, which has expanded to meet the need in this country for a publication devoted to numerical analysis and computation.As stated in the announcement of the October issue, the new title in no way represents a diminished interest in mathematical tables, which will continue to be a subject of major emphasis, as in the past.It recognizes, however, an increased interest in other areas in the field of Mathematics of Computation, which have grown in importance and in which rapid advances are being made in the present era of technological progress.The first issue of Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation appeared in January 1943, more than one year prior to the completion of the first large scale computer-the Harvard Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.It is quite evident, however, that Professor R. C. Archibald, when he founded the journal, had to a large extent foreseen the great progress which was to follow in the development of instruments for computation.In the introductory remarks which he published in the first issue he established as one of the principal goals of the Journal, "to serve as a clearing-house for information" concerning tools of computation which have been "vastly multiplied during the past decade."He further speaks of these tools, or accounts of them, which "are to be found in an enormous international range of book, pamphlet,