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The birth of the joint spectral radius: an interview with Gilbert Strang. (English) Zbl 1149.15001

The definition of the joint spectral radius first appeared in 1960. It has resurfaced in a number of application areas, including wavelets, control theory, number theory, coding and sensor networks. In the interview the author discusses how this notion was actually born.

MSC:

15-03 History of linear algebra
15A18 Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors
15A60 Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory

Biographic References:

Strang, Gilbert
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