LAA is 40 years old

✍ Scribed by Richard A. Brualdi; Volker Mehrmann; Hans Schneider

• Book ID: 104037224
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 62 KB
• Volume: 428
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0024-3795
• DOI: 10.1016/j.laa.2007.09.018

✦ Synopsis

When and where did it all begin? At the Gatlinburg Meeting (now called Householder Symposia) in April 1964 held in Tennessee (at which one of us, Hans Schneider, was in attendance), Alexander Ostrowski announced it was time to establish a journal devoted to linear algebra. Until about 1960, virtually all mathematics was published in journals that covered the entire field. Then Academic Press began to establish specialized journals such as the Journal of Algebra, when societies and other organizations were not willing to take the risk. Ostrowski started negotiations with Lore Henlein at Academic Press who left that publisher and moved to Elsevier. As a result Elsevier became the publisher of the new journal Linear Algebra and its Applications (LAA). Its first issue is dated January 1968 with Alan Hoffman at the helm as editor-in-chief. The advisory editors were Alston Householder, Cornelius Lanczos, Ostrowski, and Olga Taussky Todd. The other members of the editorial board were Fritz