With the advent of inexpensive and powerful personal computers, the amateur gains the ability to make significant contributions in the area of computational science.
Most of the problems that have exact solutions are linear. Unfortunately, nature seems to like nonlinear processes that are much more complicated. The only effective way to model such processes are by approximating a solution, and reducing the error so that your model is close enough to reality to be useful. Most of these approximations involve complicated and intricate calculations with lots of data points. It would be practically impossible to do these by hand. A computer is capable of doing these calculations with the appropriate programming.
What we hope to accomplish is the development of computer programs to perform these calculations and to reduce the errors inherent in such calculations.
Keep coming back to this web page from time to time to see what new programs we have developed. Currently we will be using Mathematica and Java to write these programs.
Our most recent project will be a shareware periodic table of the elements.
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