Memorandum No. 1000 (from the University of Twente, Faculty of Applied Mathematics).

摘要

In 1970 the Department of Applied Mathematics decided to stimulate the scientific output of a very young institute by starting a series of internal reports. These memoranda should act as preprints of papers, lower the threshold for people to get results down to paper and in general be used for memorizing anything thought worthwhile. After a very hesitant start production suddenly boomed in 1975. Maybe the reward, a bottle of jenever for three memoranda, was the cause. However, the production in the following years without a premium stayed on the same level. It got another boost in the period 1982 till 1985, when research at universities was decided to be financed only conditionally. Ever since the production has climbed and the last 100 memoranda have appeared within one year. At this rate the department should reach Memorandum no. 2000 before the end of the millennium. In the first period of five years there was a considerable contribution from the people who now are members of the Department of Computer Science, that has grown out of the Department of Applied Mathematics. The subjects treated in the memoranda reflect the research interests of the department. Many memoranda concern system theory and graph theory, but there is also a considerable output in operations research, mathematical physics, numerical analysis, analysis and stochastics.