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Nov 22 at 14:59 comment added trequartista Dear @GeorgesElencwajg, most of the survey links are dead. Could you please share the surveys again, may be by email?
Nov 7, 2018 at 19:14 comment added Georges Elencwajg Dear @Deane: yes I had also heard about Kronecker's result. Scharlau attributes to Dedekind-Weber the algebraic result underlying Grothendieck's result. And Birkhoff is also supposed to be another predecessor of the splitting theorem ...
Nov 7, 2018 at 18:41 history edited j.c. CC BY-SA 4.0
direct link to Newstead's survey
Nov 7, 2018 at 18:35 history edited Martin Sleziak CC BY-SA 4.0
mino typo
Nov 7, 2018 at 18:32 history edited Georges Elencwajg CC BY-SA 4.0
Replaced dead links by live ones
Nov 7, 2018 at 17:46 comment added Deane Yang In my thesis I needed a normal form for a pair of matrices, and my adviser told me to look in Gantmacher’s book for the Kronecker pencil lemma. He also said in passing that it was equivalent to the Grothendieck splitting theorem. I recall verifying this and in fact discussing it in my thesis. Kronecker’s paper is in 1890.
Nov 7, 2018 at 17:21 history edited j.c. CC BY-SA 4.0
add some links, cleanup google links, mark dead links
Jun 11, 2013 at 3:38 vote accept trequartista
Jun 6, 2013 at 9:41 history edited Georges Elencwajg CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 6, 2013 at 9:28 history answered Georges Elencwajg CC BY-SA 3.0