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If one is asked to name the most influential people in numerical linear algebra, then Pete (G.W.) Stewart would come very high on the list. Pete has had a major influence on the field and, in several ways, on my own career. It is with great pleasure that I pen these words as a biography and tribute to him. I am grateful to Pete not only for spending the time to discuss his life with me but also for going carefully over a draft and finding many instances where accuracy had been sacrificed for the sake of the narrative. I should, however, stress that any rounding errors that remain are purely my responsibility but hopefully do not now contaminate the result.
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Duff, I.S. (2010). Biography of G. W. Stewart. In: Kilmer, M.E., O’Leary, D.P. (eds) G.W. Stewart. Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4968-5_1
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