death_place death_date birth_place fields birth_date residence article_title name
bagneux , france 31 august 1918 montguyon , france mathematics 15 october 1875 france andré-louis cholesky
 andré-louis cholesky
andré-louis cholesky

andré-louis cholesky -lrb- 15 october 1875 , montguyon -- 31 august 1918 , bagneux -rrb- was a french military officer and mathematician .
cholesky was born in montguyon , france .
his paternal family was descendant from the cholewski family who emigrated from poland during the great emigration .
he attended the lycée in bordeaux and entered the École polytechnique , where camille jordan and henri becquerel taught .
he worked in geodesy and map-making , was involved in surveying in crete and north africa before world war i .
he is primarily remembered for the development of a matrix decomposition known as the cholesky decomposition which he used in his surveying work .
he served the french military as engineer officer and was killed in battle a few months before the end of world war i ; his discovery was published posthumously by his fellow officer commandant benoît in the `` bulletin géodésique '' .
