[SciPy-dev] Hessenberg form

[Alan G Isaac]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004, Nils Wagner apparently wrote:
> I'd like to have a function called hess
> in linalg which reduces a general matrix A to upper Hessenberg form
> before the next release.
> Any comment ?

The suggested name is perhaps unfortunate.  I would expect
hess to take a function and point as arguments and to return
a matrix of numerical partial derivatives (i.e., the
Hessian).

Cheers,
Alan Isaac