Lanczos on Mathematics and Life

On the occasion of the 120th anniversary of Cornelius Lanczos's birth the NA group at Manchester is delighted to make available online a series of video tapes produced in 1972:

   http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/lanczos/

These historic tapes show Cornelius Lanczos talking about his fascinating and restless life as numerical analyst and inventor of the tau method, (re-) discoverer of the fast Fourier transform and singular value decomposition, and of course, inventor of the Lanczos algorithm.