@inbook {IOPORT.06104312, author = {Wa\'sniewski, Jerzy}, title = {A look back: 57 years of scientific computing.}, year = {2012}, booktitle = {Parallel processing and applied mathematics. 9th international conference, PPAM 2011, Torun, Poland, September 11--14, 2011. Revised selected papers, Part I}, isbn = {978-3-642-31463-6}, pages = {1-9}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-31464-3_1}, abstract = {Summary: This document outlines my 57-year career in computational mathematics, a career that took me from Poland to Canada and finally to Denmark. It of course spans a period in which both hardware and software developed enormously. Along the way I was fortunate to be faced with fascinating technical challenges and privileged to be able to share them with inspiring colleagues. From the beginning, my work to a great extent was concerned, directly or indirectly, with computational linear algebra, an interest I maintain even today.}, identifier = {06104312}, }