Thanks

I express my most grateful thanks to all the individuals who along the years have contributed to bring some of those "dreamed" pages into reality.

Without the collaboration or existence of some of the ones I enumerate below, in the order at which I had the pleasure to met personally (or be presented to some of their works), my research on the solution of sparse linear systems could have been a lot more tortuous, or reveal itself infertile after all the time ...

• To my Mother and the Duarte's branch of my family ( for all my education )

• J. M. McCormick ( for the first book to literally "change" my life )

• Armando C. Filho ( for introducing me to the computational and matricial universe )

• Hewlett & Packard ( for providing the means of my first steps, on a HP-67 )

• Fabiano S. G. de Oliveira ( for being the first to "realize" my thoughts )

• Clovis C. Gonzaga ( for all the Example, friendship, support and supervising )

• Maurício Resende and Geraldo Veiga ( for the success of their implementations )

• N. Karmarkar ( for having provided the establishment of a hole new area of research )

• S. Pissanetsky ( for the second book to literally "change" my destiny )

• F. G. Gustavson ( for having developed the work that still motivates my research )

• Boris G. Gorenstin ( for the first questioning that led me to sparsity )

• Hermínio C. Pinto ( for the second questioning that led to my master thesis )

• Lilian Markenzon ( for the course that motivated significant advances on my work )

• Marielba Rojas ( for having opened me many New Horizons )

• Ayrton S. da Silva ( for being the First, Only, and Best of All ! )

• Delfim X. Martins and Hsingh ( for having lightened the same Passion for computing )

• Mario Veiga F. Pereira, Gerson Couto, Sérgio Granville, Paulo Alexandre, Nelson Martins, Marciano Morozowski, Joari, Sérgio Porto, Cordeiro, Ayrú Leal, Maria Cândida, Ricardo Diniz, Pedro di Novella, Silvio Binato and researchers from the extinct DPST dept. ( for all the support received at the CEPEL )

• Maurício Nardone, Plácido Pinheiro, Paulo Ney de Souza, Afonso Celso del Nero Gomes,
  Nelson Maculan Filho, Nelson Ortegosa, João Lauro Dorneles Facó, Carlos A. de Moura, Cláudio Luis Amorim, Fernanda, Augusto and Marco Antônio Raupp ( for all the attention )

• Sandra, Ingrid, Miriam, Erivaldo and graduation colleagues ( for all the good moments )

• Amelia F. Semblano ( for the long friendship and continuous support )

• Fernando Messeder and family ( for all the solid friendship established a long time ago )

• Rogério and Victor Passy and family ( for all the support and friendship )

• João B. Cabrera ( for the long friendship and assistance )

• Renato S. Silva and Ézio R. Araújo ( for sharing valuable bookmarks )

• Alf-Christian Achilles ( for the Cool and Respectable Enterprise of establishing
  and maintaining The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies ! )

• LNCC ( for providing a nice place for the development of this work )

• CNPQ ( for providing the financial support for this research )

• GeoCities ( for the provision of free space to mirror my pages )

• OpenLink ( for their excelence as an Internet provider in Rio )

• MontReal ( for the profissionalism of their Support division )

• Domain ( for an equaly reliable and affordable Internet access )

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Ricardo Duarte Arantes

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Bibliographic References on Sparse Linear Systems

http://www2.lncc.br/~duarte/sparsbib.html
http://www.domain.com.br/clientes/sparse/sparsbib.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/6160/sparsbib.html
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Math/sparse.linear.systems.html