Pete Stewart
Pete Stewart is one of my closest colleagues.
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Pete
Pete's formal name is Gilbert W. Stewart. So why do we all call him Pete? It's a little vague. Because Pete's father was nicknamed Pete. Why? Because Pete's father's father was nickednamed Pete. That's all the explanation I ever got.
LINPACK
The authors of LINPACK are Jack Dongarra, Cleve Moler, Pete Stewart and Jim Bunch. This is one of the snapshots taken in 1978 when all of us spent the summer at Argonne. Another of the snapshots was in the New York Times when Jack won the Turing award.
Here we are 30 years later. Jack has lost the most hair, but I have the coolest shirt.
Householder
Pete's Ph. D. thesis adviser was Alston Householder. Here are Pete, Mike Heath, Alston, and Bob Funderlic in 1970.
Old Timers
Paul van Dooren, Bo Kågström, Pete Stewart, Chris Paige, Michael Saunders, Bob Plemmons and Cleve Moler in 2017 at the Householder Symposium XX, Virginia Tech.
Bibliograhy
Here is a Linocut by Henk van der Vorst and a link to a bibliography compiled by Nelson Beebe
https://www.henkvandervorst.nl/computing.html
A Bibliography compiled by Nelson Beebe.
Collected Works
Dianne O'Leary and Mischa Kilmer edited a volume of Pete's collected works.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-8176-4968-5
Oral History
Thomas Haigh conducted several dozen oral histories of computational scientists for SIAM. Here is Pete's Oral History.
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Published with MATLAB® R2024b