John von Neumann's Analysis of Gaussian Elimination and the Origins of Modern Numerical Analysis

DOI10.1137/080734716zbMath1314.65005MaRDI QIDQ3105795

Joseph F. Grcar

Publication date: 9 January 2012

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/080734716

zbMATH Keywords

stability; history; condition number; Gaussian elimination; CFL condition; matrix norms; numerical analysis; von Neumann; backward error; computer architecture; computer arithmetic; rounding error analysis; computer programming; decomposition paradigm; stochastic linear algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

65G50: Roundoff error

65F05: Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion

65-03: History of numerical analysis

68-03: History of computer science

65Y04: Numerical algorithms for computer arithmetic, etc.

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