 La méthode de Cholesky by Claude Brezinski

Historical research article by Claude Brezinski, published in Revue d’histoire des mathématiques 11 (2005), pp. 205–238. Numdam hosts the original journal article. The printed received date, 4 November 2004, and revised date, 11 May 2005, are distinct from publication.

Original article: www.numdam.org/item/RHM_2005__11_2_205_0.pdf

Section 4 reproduces a primary manuscript authored by André-Louis Cholesky and dated Vincennes, 2 December 1910. Cholesky is the author of that manuscript; Brezinski is the author of the surrounding 2005 article. The manuscript date does not establish an exact invention date or a broad priority claim.

Cited passages: pp. 210–211: constrained geodetic corrections and the matrix $M{M}^T$; p. 217: manuscript title, 2 December 1910 date and uncertainty about the exact invention date; §4, p. 229: the primary manuscript’s reported 56-equation altitude adjustment for Algerian triangulation and closing date. The primary manuscript transcription was inspected as text; no inspection of handwriting images is claimed.