Abstract
Nick Trefethen In August 2015 a distinguished collection of numerical analysts gathered at Oxford to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of Nick Trefethen FRS and consider the future of numerical analysis. Some of the plenary speakers provided short essays for Notices. The full collection is online.1 In a 1992 essay, “The Definition of Numerical Analysis”,2 Trefethen writes of the field, “[O]ur central mission is to compute quantities that are typically uncomputable, fromananalytical point of view, and to do it at lightning speed.” These essays explore a few of the particulars of that mission.
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