AbstractIn 2016, the biennial conference Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (CMAM) was dedicated to a remarkable event: the hundredth anniversary of the Galerkin method.
This special volume of the same name journal is mainly based on the papers of participants of this conference. The introductory article contains a brief description of the origin and development of the Galerkin method and gives an overview of the conference, which was held at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), July 31 – August 6, 2016.
