Timeline for History of Jordan Canonical Form?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 19, 2013 at 23:54 | comment | added | Jim Humphreys | @Drew: No, at this point I'm not sure exactly how that proof evolved. Certainly it wasn't due to me. When Couty contacted me a few years ago I was similarly unable to add to the historical picture she was reconstructing. | |
| Dec 19, 2013 at 20:31 | comment | added | Drew Armstrong | Thanks. The Couty et al. reference was helpful. The nicest proof I've seen of the Jordan decomposition "semisimple+nilpotent" is the one you give on page 17 of your 1972 text. I like that it is based only on the elementary idea of partial fractions (equivalently, Chinese Remainder Theorem). Do you know the history of that proof? | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 21:59 | history | answered | Jim Humphreys | CC BY-SA 3.0 |