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.
%0 Journal Article
%1 stewart1993early
%A Stewart, G. W.
%D 1993
%I Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
%J SIAM Review
%K 01a55-19th-century 01a60-20th-century 15-03-linear-algebra-historical 15a18-eigenvalues-singular-values-and-eigenvectors
%N 4
%P 551--566
%R 10.1137/1035134
%T On the Early History of the Singular Value Decomposition
%U https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1035134
%V 35
%X 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.
@article{stewart1993early,
abstract = {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.},
added-at = {2021-02-19T01:59:19.000+0100},
author = {Stewart, G. W.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ea96c3017034f0da1b532aef39604ac2/gdmcbain},
doi = {10.1137/1035134},
interhash = {c6b48b93438e846eecd2d776df4ab1d9},
intrahash = {ea96c3017034f0da1b532aef39604ac2},
journal = {{SIAM} Review},
keywords = {01a55-19th-century 01a60-20th-century 15-03-linear-algebra-historical 15a18-eigenvalues-singular-values-and-eigenvectors},
month = dec,
number = 4,
pages = {551--566},
publisher = {Society for Industrial {\&} Applied Mathematics ({SIAM})},
timestamp = {2021-02-19T01:59:59.000+0100},
title = {On the Early History of the Singular Value Decomposition},
url = {https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1035134},
volume = 35,
year = 1993
}