@inbook{fccaffa572334206899a90d1bee95eda,
title = "Spectral properties of matrices",
abstract = "The existence of directions that are preserved by linear transformations (which are referred to as eigenvectors) has been discovered by L. Euler in his study of movements of rigid bodies. This work was continued by Lagrange, Cauchy, Fourier, and Hermite. The study of eigenvectors and eigenvalues acquired increasing significance through its applications in heat propagation and stability theory. Later, Hilbert initiated the study of eigenvalue in functional analysis (in the theory of integral operators).",
author = "Simovici, \{Dan A.\} and Chabane Djeraba",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag London 2014.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-4471-6407-4\_7",
language = "English",
series = "Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing",
publisher = "Springer London",
number = "9781447164067",
pages = "347--397",
booktitle = "Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing",
edition = "9781447164067",
}