A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra

This expansive volume describes the history of numerical methods proposed for solving linear algebra problems, from antiquity to the present day. The authors focus on methods for linear systems of equations and eigenvalue problems and describe the interplay between numerical methods and the computing tools available at the time. The second part of the book consists of 78 biographies of important contributors to the field. A Journey through the History of Numerical Linear Algebra will be of special interest to applied mathematicians, especially researchers in numerical linear algebra, people involved in scientific computing, and historians of mathematics.

Claude Brezinski is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Lille, France, where he was head of the Laboratory of Numerical Analysis and Optimization for 30 years and advised 60 doctoral students. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Numerical Algorithms and author of more than 240 papers and several books on applied mathematics as well as the his...

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