Centenario del método de Cholesky

El profesor Claude Brezinski ha anunciado a través del boletín NA Digest la celebración del 100º aniversario del método de Cholesky el próximo 2 de diciembre. A continuación se reproduce el anuncio de forma literal:
“Andre Louis Cholesky was born on 15 October 1875 in Montguyon (France), and he was killed during WWI on 31 August 1918, in Bagneux. His celebrated method for solving a system of linear equations with a symmetric positive definite matrix was only known from a paper written by a topographer of the Army, the Commander Benoit, in 1923. Nothing from Cholesky's hand was known. In January 2004, I received a letter from Michel Gros, Cholesky's grand son, asking me if I will be interested in helping him to sort his grand father's personal papers that he recently gave to the Ecole Polytechnique where Cholesky had been a student. I accepted. During our first visit to Ecole Polytechnique, we discovered, among Cholesky's papers (6 big boxes), an unknown and unpublished manuscript (8 pages) where he explained his method for solving systems of linear equations. This paper is dated 2 December 1910. Thus, this week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Cholesky's method. References and documents, including a facsimile of the paper, can be found from my homepage http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~brezinsk/ “

Fuente: NA Digest Monday, November 29, 2010 Volume 10 : Issue 48.