André-Louis Cholesky
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". André-Louis Cholesky (15 October 1875, in Montguyon – 31 August 1918, in Bagneux) was a French military officer, geodesist, and mathematician.
Cholesky was born in Montguyon, France. His paternal family was descended from the Cholewski family, which emigrated from Poland during the Great Emigration. He attended the lycée in Bordeaux and entered the École Polytechnique, where Camille Jordan and Henri Becquerel taught.[1] He worked in geodesy and cartography, and he was involved in the surveying of Crete and North Africa before World War I. He is primarily remembered for the development of a form of matrix decomposition known as the Cholesky decomposition, which he used in his surveying work. He served in the French military as an artillery officer and was killed in battle a few months before the end of World War I; his discovery was published posthumously by his fellow officer Commandant Benoît in Bulletin Géodésique.[2]
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External links
- Bulletin de la SABIX, n°39, 2005, André-Louis Cholesky Template:In lang
- Cholesky's CV at the library of Ecole Polytechnique Template:In lang
- Claude Brezinski, Dominique Tournès, André-Louis Cholesky, Mathematician, Topographer and Army Officer, Birkhaeuser, 2014.
- Major Cholesky, obituary
- Sur la résolution numérique des systèmes d'équations linéaires, Cholesky 1910 manuscript, online and analyzed on BibNum Template:In lang [for English, click 'A télécharger']