Institute of Computer Science
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better." - E. W. Dijkstra

Department of Computional Methods

The area of research of the department of computational methods is scientific computing. Scientific computing, also called computational mathematics, is an important area of computer science. It is concerned with the design and analysis of algorithms for solving mathematical problems arising in many fields, especially in science and engineering.