I sometimes wonder about the relationship between my affection for a paper that I have written, the effort required to write it, and how much recognition the paper obtained. I think that the papers that took the most time are still the ones I like the best, even if sometimes they did not generate so much buzz in the community.
One paper that took a lot of time and of which I remain proud is Parallel Algorithms for the Spectral Transform Method, which Pat Worley and I published in the SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing in 1997.
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