Comments on: Searching for John Francis http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/31/searching-for-john-francis/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:10:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jan Van lent http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/03/31/searching-for-john-francis/comment-page-1/#comment-110318 Jan Van lent Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:33:47 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=1911#comment-110318 The introduction to "The QR algorithm: 50 years later its genesis by John Francis and Vera Kublanovskaya and subsequent developments" by Golub and Uhlig [1] talks about their quest to find John Francis. It also contains a short bio. Unfortunately, I don't think the article is freely available. I attended the 23rd Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, in Glasgow where John Francis gave a fascinating talk. It was amazing how well he remembered everything. http://imajna.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/3/467.abstract The introduction to “The QR algorithm: 50 years later its genesis by John Francis and Vera Kublanovskaya and subsequent developments” by Golub and Uhlig [1] talks about their quest to find John Francis. It also contains a short bio.
Unfortunately, I don’t think the article is freely available.

I attended the 23rd Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, in Glasgow where John Francis gave a fascinating talk. It was amazing how well he remembered everything.

http://imajna.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/3/467.abstract

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