Xref: utzoo comp.sys.handhelds:3687 sci.math:13545 sci.lang:8087 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!spam.ua.oz.au!wvenable From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au (Bill Venables) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,sci.math,sci.lang Subject: Re: origin of eigenvalue & -vector Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 02:23:12 GMT References: <6132@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> <685@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> <1990Nov16.052910.13041@cec1.wustl.edu> Sender: wvenable@spam.ua.oz Organization: Adelaide University. Lines: 17 In-reply-to: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu's message of 16 Nov 90 19:24:21 GMT In article cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes: >> In article <1990Nov16.052910.13041@cec1.wustl.edu> >> delliott@cec2.wustl.edu (Dave Elliott) writes: >> In German, it's eigenwerth, I think. 40 years ago there were >> objections to "eigenvalue" as a barbarism: half German, half English. > Now, if we really want to nitpick (and we do, don't we ?), it is > eigenwert ! (no 'h') ... and like all German nouns it should have a capital letter: Eigenwert. :-) -- Bill Venables, Dept. of Statistics, | Email: venables@spam.adelaide.edu.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5412