Blondel, Vincent D. The birth of the joint spectral radius: an interview with Gilbert Strang. (English) Zbl 1149.15001 Linear Algebra Appl. 428, No. 10, 2261-2264 (2008). 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. Reviewer: Grozio Stanilov (Sofia) Cited in 3 Documents 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 Keywords:control theory; number theory; coding theory; sensor network; wavelets; joint spectral radius Biographic References: Strang, Gilbert PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{V. D. Blondel}, Linear Algebra Appl. 428, No. 10, 2261--2264 (2008; Zbl 1149.15001) Full Text: DOI