Special Linear Systems and Cholesky Factorization for Programmers

Post by santaclaus » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 8:14 PM UTC

mturmon wrote: post #20

mindcrime wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fourier I've always heard this pronounced like "for-e-ay" (or "for-e-eh" where the last part is the Canadian "eh?").

I'm with you. You also hear "FOUR-e-err", and my favorite EE teacher said "FUR-ee-err", indistinguishable from the word for a fur coat-maker, which always produced a smile. (But, he's a fellow of the IEEE and I'm not, so who's laughing now?) I say "WEE-ner" (since he was American, but, open to correction on that one) and "YEN-sen" (that's how I was taught).

Post by llamaz » Wed, Sep 20, 2017, 4:59 AM UTC

mturmon wrote: post #15

santaclaus wrote: post #8

Now the real tough question is how do you pronounce Cholesky? I had a Polish math prof who was mad at the American pronunciation, but Cholesky was actually French, so should we actually pronounce it in the francophone style?

The sophisticated linear algebra practitioners I learned from all said "ko-LESS-key". People who ask me naive questions about the decomposition ("wait, is it upper triangular or lower triangular?") say "choe-LESS-key", or "CHOLES-key", or mutter something even farther off the mark. Thus, I'm sticking with ko-LESS-key. Also seeking opinions on: Weiner (as in the process), and Jensen (as in the inequality), Fourier (as…