Yes, I know a good amount of italians; none of them can speak italian though, lol.
I added an edit, but you beat me to the chase,
And their main interest wasn't exactly iterating matrices. But rather iterating kernels,
\(
\mathcal{K} f = \int K(x,y)f(y)\,dy\\
\)
Which once you do the whole eigen decomposition bologna; and you're on a hilbert space; it's equivalent to iterating a matrix. Or some blather like that. God, I hate matrices.
I added an edit, but you beat me to the chase,
And their main interest wasn't exactly iterating matrices. But rather iterating kernels,
\(
\mathcal{K} f = \int K(x,y)f(y)\,dy\\
\)
Which once you do the whole eigen decomposition bologna; and you're on a hilbert space; it's equivalent to iterating a matrix. Or some blather like that. God, I hate matrices.
