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 I think too much about matrices. 
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 So now whenever one mentions how smooth a spline is at a cocktail, you can prove it on the back of a napkin. 
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 Write your matrix on a mobius strip. 
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 If you're a FORTRAN dude like me, ... 
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 Here's the theorem we are going to prove: it is fairly painless and the result is quite dramatic. 
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 This is crude, but, um, I'm that sort of guy. 
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 It's hard to differentiate FORTRAN subroutines. 
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 If you can find a quadratic equation with three roots, come find me at my office hours, or even on my estate. 
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 Householder did his work in the fifties - he was one of the founders of Numerical Algebra. He is now retired in Malibu. This will happen one day to me too: the "Van-Loan Matrix" has two columns at the top and three at the bottom. For that they'll let me retire in Elmira. 
		   — Charlie Van Loan
		    
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 I hate least squares. 
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