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ACCESSIBILITY VS. AWARENESS:
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194x-1980:
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Computing power reserved to research grade work
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Before attaining graduate status, one had to do one's numerics
by hand
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Thus one tried to concentrate on analytically solvable approximations
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Nonlinear DE, random motion, simulation of many-particle systems, etc.
remained objects of desire...
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Around 1980: PC revolution
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1980-now:
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Computers widely available, but used primarily for other things than computing
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Important to raise the awareness for computation (not computers!) in
high school and beginning science students
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How? - Confront students with challenging problems (anharmonic oscillator?),
then give them tools to solve them (Størmer algorithm?)
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vesely sep-2005
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