The method is named after Jørgen Pedersen Gram and Erhard Schmidt, but Pierre-Simon Laplace had been familiar with it before Gram and Schmidt. In the theory of Lie group decompositions, it is generalized by the Iwasawa decomposition.
the method is named after jørgen pedersen gram and erhard schmidt but pierre-simon laplace had been familiar with it before gram and schmidt in the theory of lie group decompositions it is generalized by the iwasawa decomposition