19/04/2002
cg-method
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Birth of CG-Method
Prof. Dr. Urs
Hochstrasser
| To report
about the birth of the cg-method is for me almost like remembering my first
love and I am doing it with great pleasure. I am very grateful to the
organizers of this symposium that they have invited me to assume this task
for a wider public so that my shortcomings in keeping up with the newest
developments in mathematics hopefully will not be too visible. My
appreciation is all the greater because already long ago I have deserted
research in numerical analysis, in which Prof. Stiefel, one of the inventors
of the cg-method, introduced me at the beginning of the 1950s, in favor
of science policy. This meant that
instead of doing research I tried to procure research money and to create
favorable conditions for such activities. Taking into account my limited
mathematical gifts I think that this way I have been able to advance science
a little more than if I had continued
in my academic career. But I should not talk above all about myself so let us
start with the presentation which I have prepared using the New Learning
Technologies in order to show you that I have at least kept up with the
developments of computer technology whose shortcomings at its beginnings
after the second world war caused me some frustrations. |
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| Following the
rules for a good presentation I begin with a disposition |