A named algorithm computing a mathematical or number-theoretic result: a value, a factorization, a transform or a matrix product. Belongs here: Euclidean Algorithm, Fast Fourier Transform, Miller-Rabin Primality Test, Newton-Raphson Method, Sieve of Eratosthenes and Strassen's Algorithm, each defined by the numerical result it computes. Does not belong here: an algorithm whose numerical steps exist only to support a graph, optimization or machine-learning result, filed under that result's own subcategory instead.
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The origins of modern numerical analysis are often linked to a 1947 paper by John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, but others consider modern numerical analysis to go back to work by E. T. Whittaker in 1912.
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