SIMULTANEOUS LINEAR EQUATIONS AND THE DETERMINATION OF EIGENVALUES.

Abstract

Contents: Tentative classification of methods and bibliography on solving systems of linear equations; Simultaneous systems of equations; The geometry of some iterative methods of solving linear systems; Solutions of linear systems of equations on a relay machine; Some special methods of relaxation technique; Errors of matrix computations; Rapidly converging iterative methods for solving linear equations; Some problems in aerodynamics and structural engineering related to eigenvalues; Inclusion theorems for eigenvalues; On general computation methods for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Variational methods for the approximation and exact computation of eigenvalues; Determination of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices; New results in the perturbation theory of eigenvalue problems; Bounds for characteristic roots of matrices; Matrix inversion and solution of simultaneous linear algebraic equations with the IBM 604 electronic calculating punch; and Experiments on the inversion of a 16 x 16 matrix.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 31, 1953
Accession Number
AD0695953

Entities

People

  • L. J. Paige
  • Olga Taussky

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computations
  • Differential Equations
  • Eigenvalues
  • Eigenvectors
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Inversion
  • Linear Algebraic Equations
  • Linear Systems
  • Perturbation Theory
  • Perturbations
  • Structural Engineering
  • Theorems
  • Variational Methods

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Linear Algebra

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics