Overview
The only existing book on the life and the works of Cholesky and contemporaries
Reproduction of an unpublished manuscript on graphical calculation
English translation of his unpublished paper on the solution of systems of linear equations and further unpublished documents with historical and mathematical commentaries
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Reviews
“The volume represents a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the history of applied and computational mathematics … . the book will be of interest to applied mathematicians with a curiosity about historical matters, and to professional historians of science who specialize in the history of ‘practical mathematics,’ topography, geodesy, and computing methods.” (Michele Benzi, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 39, 2017)
“A nicely illustrated book, many photographs appear of Cholesky, often in military uniform, his family, colleagues and contemporaries. The topographical terms and techniques are well described … . Cholesky was very practical and resourceful. … A very stimulating and engaging book, a motivation to further research of the techniques considered.” (Wallace A. Ferguson, Mathematics Today, Vol. 52 (2), April, 2016)
“The book should appreciably widen the exposure of Cholesky’s ‘remarkable personal achievements in topography and mathematics to a much larger international audience.’ The authors succeed very well to reach this aim. … The book is very readable and can be recommended especially to readers with interest in the history of numerical and applied mathematics.” (Karl-Heinz Schlote, zbMATH 1320.01002, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Claude Brezinski is emeritus professor of numerical analysis at the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille (Laboratory Paul Painlevé, UMR CNRS 8524), France. His work mainly concerns extrapolation methods, orthogonal polynomials, Padé and rational approximation and numerical linear algebra. He also published several papers and books on the history of sciences.
Dominique Tournès is professor of mathematics and history of mathematics at the University of La Réunion (Laboratory of Mathematics and Computer Science, EA 2525), France and associate researcher at the SPHERE laboratory (UMR 7219, CNRS and University Paris-Diderot, France). His work focuses on the history of calculation methods and instruments since the seventeenth century, particularly regarding differential equations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: André-Louis Cholesky
Book Subtitle: Mathematician, Topographer and Army Officer
Authors: Claude Brezinski, Dominique Tournès
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08135-9
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08134-2Published: 20 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38157-2Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08135-9Published: 06 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Applications of Mathematics, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis