[FabHK]

BTW, if you wonder about the dedication ("For Gene Golub on his 15th birthday"):

Gene Golub was a numerical analyst, and father of the practical singular value decomposition (his license plate read "Prof SVD"), together with William Kahan (the father of IEEE 754 floating point numbers).

And his birthday was February 29. (In other words, the article was on the occasion of Gene's 60th birthday).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_H._Golub

RIP.

[FabHK]

Just to add: Credit is also due to Prof Christian Reinsch from Technical University of Munich (in addition to Golub and Kahan) for the invention of the practical algorithm for computing the SVD still in use today.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2022/10/23/christian-reins...

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/gander/talks/Vortrag2022.pdf

https://www.mathworks.com/company/technical-articles/profess...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reinsch