The algorithm first appeared in the appendix of the 1920 book "Applied Aerodynamics" by Leonard Bairstow.
Born in 1880 in Halifax, Bairstow is best remembered for his work in aviation and for Bairstow's method for arbitrarily finding the roots of polynomials.
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He held the Zaharoff Chair of Aviation at Imperial College London from 1920-1949 and became Professor Sir Leonard Bairstow.
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