Trefethen's list of 13 classic papers in applied mathematics
- J.W. Cooley and J.W. Tukey, "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series," Math. Comp., 19 (1965), pp. 297–301.
- R. Courant, K. Friedrichs, and H. Lewy, "On the partial difference equations of mathematical physics," IBM J. Res. Develop., 11 (1967), pp. 215–234.
- A.S. Householder, "Unitary triangularization of a nonsymmetric matrix," J. Assoc. Comput. Mach., 5 (1958), pp. 339–342.
- C.F. Curtiss and J.O. Hirschfelder, "Integration of stiff equations," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 38 (1952), pp. 235–243.
- C. de Boor, "On calculating with B-splines," J. Approximation Theory, 6 (1972), pp. 50–62.
- R. Courant, "Variational methods for the solution of problems of equilibrium and vibrations," Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 49 (1943), pp. 1–23.
- G. Golub and W. Kahan, "Calculating the singular values and pseudo-inverse of a matrix," J. Soc. Indust. Appl. Math. Ser. B Numer. Anal., 2 (1965), pp. 205–224.
- A. Brandt, "Multi-level adaptive solutions to boundary-value problems," Math. Comp., 31 (1977), no. 138, pp. 333–390.
- M.R. Hestenes and E. Stiefel, "Methods of conjugate gradients for solving linear systems," J. Research Nat. Bur. Standards, 49 (1952), pp. 409–436.
- R. Fletcher and M.J.D. Powell, "A rapidly convergent descent method for minimization," Comput. J., 6 (1963/1964), pp. 163–168.
- G. Wanner, E. Hairer, and S.P. Nørsett, "Order stars and stability theorems," BIT, 18 (1978), no. 4, pp. 475–489.
- N. Karmarkar, "A new polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming," Combinatorica, 4 (1984), no. 4, pp. 373–395.
- L. Greengard and V. Rokhlin, "A fast algorithm for particle simulations," J. Comput. Phys., 73 (1987), no. 2, pp. 325–348.
