On the Early History of the Singular Value Decomposition
On the Early History of the Singular Value Decomposition
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1998-10-15
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Stewart, G. W.
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This paper surveys the contributions of five
mathematicians\,---\,Eugenio Beltrami (1835--1899), Camille Jordan
(1838--1921), James Joseph Sylvester (1814--1897), Erhard Schmidt
(1876--1959), and Hermann Weyl (1885--1955)\,---\,who were responsible
for establishing the existence of the singular value decomposition
and developing its theory.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-92-31)