Walter Edwin Arnoldi

Walter Edwin Arnoldi (born December 14, 1917 in New York City , † October 5, 1995 ) was an American mechanical engineer, known for a work on numerical linear algebra .

Arnoldi graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology as an engineer in 1937 and then studied at Harvard University with a master’s degree in 1939 (MS). He then worked as an engineer at United Aircraft Corporation from 1939 until his retirement in 1977, for which he primarily made calculations on the mechanical and aerodynamic properties of aircraft designs. He also had to solve linear algebra problems, which led to his development of the Arnoldi method named after him , which he published in 1951. He became a senior engineer in the Hamilton Standard Division of the United Aircraft Corporation.

Fonts

• The principle of minimized iterations in the solution of the eigenvalue problem , Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Volume 9, 1951, pp. 17-29

literature

• Carl Meyer: Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra , SIAM, 2000, p. 653, footnote to Arnoldi