Flashcards: Numerical analysts

Alexander Markowich Ostrowski (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ма́ркович Остро́вский; 25 September 1893, in Kiev, Russian Empire – 20 November 1986, in Montagnola, Lugano, Switzerland) was a mathematician.

Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born 1957) is an Indian mathematician, who developed Karmarkar's algorithm.

Karl Adolf Hessenberg (September 8, 1904 – February 22, 1959) was a German mathematician and engineer.

Carl-Wilhelm Reinhold de Boor (born 3 December 1937) is a German-American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Franco Brezzi (born 29 April 1945 in Vimercate) is an Italian mathematician.

Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing.

Fritz John (14 June 1910 – 10 February 1994) was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems.

Alessandro Faedo (18 November 1913 – 15 June 2001) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo.

Peter Karl Henrici (13 September 1923 – 13 March 1987) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis.

Douglas Norman Arnold is a mathematician whose research focuses on the numerical analysis of partial differential equations with applications in mechanics and other fields in physics.

Marguerite Straus Frank (born September 8, 1927), is an American-French mathematician, and pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.

Bradley K. Alpert is a computational scientist at NIST.

John E. Osborn (July 12, 1936 – May 30, 2011) was an American mathematician.

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Josef Stoer (born 21 June 1934 in Meschede) is a German mathematician specializing in numerical analysis and professor emeritus of the Institut für Mathematik of Universität Würzburg.

Maria Adelaide Sneider (6 December 1937 – 1 May 1989) (also known as Maria Adelaide Sneider Ludovici, her second surname being "Ludovici") was an Italian mathematician working on numerical and mathematical analysis.

John Todd (May 16, 1911 – June 21, 2007) was a professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis.

William B. Gragg is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Steven Alan Orszag (February 27, 1943 – May 1, 2011) was an American mathematician.

Philip J. Davis (born January 2, 1923) is an American academic applied mathematician.

Trefethen obtained his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1977 and his master's from Stanford University in 1980.

Endre Süli (also, Endre Suli) is Professor of Numerical Analysis in the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics at Worcester College, Oxford and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.

Esmail Babolian is an Iranian numerical analyst, best known as the pioneer professor of numerical analysis in Iran.

Fariba Fahroo is an American Persian mathematician, a program manager at the Defense Sciences Office, and a former program manager at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Leslie Fox (30 September 1918 – 1 August 1992) was a British mathematician noted for his contribution to numerical analysis.

Ivo M. Babuška (born March 22, 1926 in Prague) is a Czech-American mathematician, noted for his studies of the finite element method and the proof of the Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem in partial differential equations.

Gene Howard Golub (February 29, 1932 – November 16, 2007), Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation.

James Weldon Demmel is an American mathematician and computer scientist, the Dr.

Paul Roesel Garabedian (Armenian: Փոլ Գարաբեդյան, August 2, 1927, Cincinnati – May 13, 2010, Manhattan) was a mathematician and numerical analyst.

Irene Ann Stegun (February 9, 1919 – January 27, 2008) was a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called A Handbook of Mathematical Functions, widely known as Abramowitz and Stegun.

Alston Scott Householder (Rockford, Illinois, USA, 5 May 1904 – Malibu, California, USA, 4 July 1993) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical biology and numerical analysis, inventor of the Householder transformation and of Householder's method.

Alexandre Joel Chorin (born 25 June 1938) is a University Professor at the University of California, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Phyllis Ann Fox (born 1923) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.

Philippe G. Ciarlet (born October 14, 1938, Paris) is a French mathematician, known particularly for his work on mathematical analysis of the finite element method especially applied to elasticity.

Hendrik "Henk" Albertus van der Vorst (born 5 May 1944, Venlo) is a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Numerical Analysis at Utrecht University.

Burton Wendroff (born 10 March 1930) is an American applied mathematician and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico.

Germund Dahlquist (16 January 1925 – 8 February 2005) was a Swedish mathematician known primarily for his early contributions to the theory of numerical analysis as applied to differential equations.

Françoise Tisseur is a numerical analyst andProfessor of Numerical Analysisat the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, UK.

Qiang Du, (Chinese: 杜强), Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, is a mathematician and computational scientist.

Eitan Tadmor (born May 4, 1954) is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, well known for his contributions to the theory and computation of PDEs with diverse applications to shock wave, kinetic transport, incompressible flows, image processing, and self-organized collective dynamics.

Nimrod Megiddo (Hebrew: נמרוד מגידו‎‎) is a mathematician and computer scientist.

Philip Starr "Phil" Wolfe (born August 11, 1927) is considered one of the founders of convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.

Nicholas John Higham FRS (born Salford 25 December 1961) is a British numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.

Phillip Colella is an American applied mathematician and the Head of the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Yinyu Ye (Chinese: 叶荫宇; pinyin: Yè Yīnyǔ; born 1948) is a Chinese American theoretical computer scientist working on mathematical optimization.

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Daniel Shanks (January 17, 1917 – September 6, 1996) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis and number theory.

John G.F. Francis (born 1934) is an English computer scientist, who in 1961 published the QR algorithm for computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices, which has been named as one of the ten most important algorithms of the twentieth century.

Cleve Barry Moler is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis.

David Gilbert Luenberger (born September 16, 1937) is a mathematical scientist known for his research and his textbooks, which center on mathematical optimization.

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Annalisa Buffa (born 1973) is an Italian mathematician, specializing in numerical analysis and PDEs.

Max D. Gunzburger, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Florida State University, is an American mathematician and computational scientist affiliated with the Florida State interdisciplinary Department of Scientific Computing.

Robert D. (Bob) Russell is professor of mathematics at Simon Fraser University.

Roderick Melnik is a Canadian-Australian mathematician and scientist, internationally known for his research in applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and mathematical modeling for scientific and engineering applications.

Richard Steven Varga (/ˈvɑːrɡə/; born October 9, 1928) is an American mathematician who specializes in numerical analysis and linear algebra.

Björn Engquist (also Bjorn Engquist; born 2 June 1945 in Stockholm) has been a leading contributor in the areas of multiscale modeling and scientific computing, and a productive educator of applied mathematicians.

Andrei (Andrew) Knyazev (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Князев) is a Russian-American mathematician.

John B. Bell is an American mathematician and the head of the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Jack Howlett CBE (1912 – 5 May 1999) was a British mathematician and computer scientist who was head of the Atlas Computer Laboratory for the duration of its existence.

Gianfranco Cimmino (12 March 1908 – 30 May 1989) was an Italian mathematician, working mathematical analysis, numerical analysis, and theory of elliptic partial differential equations: he is known for being the first mathematician generalizing in a weak sense the notion of boundary value in a boundary value problem, and for doing an influential work in numerical analysis.

Milton Abramowitz (1915 in Brooklyn, New York – 5 July 1958) was a mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Irene Stegun, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called Handbook of Mathematical Functions, widely known as Abramowitz and Stegun.

Christopher Budd OBE (born 15 February 1960) is a British mathematician known especially for his contribution to non-linear differential equations and their applications in industry.

Claude Lemaréchal is a French applied mathematician.

Stanley Osher (born April 24, 1942) is an American mathematician, known for his many contributions in shock capturing, level set methods, and PDE-based methods in computer vision and image processing.

Amiram Harten (1946 – 1994) was an American/Israeli applied mathematician.

Charles Francis Van Loan is a professor of computer science and the Joseph C.

Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, CBE, FREng, FRS (18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009) was a British academic of Polish descent, mathematician, and civil engineer.

Dr. Young is best known for establishing the mathematical framework for iterative methods (a.k.a. preconditioning).

Desmond John Higham (born Salford 17 February 1964)is a numerical analyst and 1966 Chair of Numerical Analysis in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

Iain S. Duff is a British mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in numerical methods and software for solving problem with sparse matrices, in particular the Harwell Subroutine Library.

(For other people named John Butcher, see John Butcher (disambiguation).) John Charles Butcher ONZM (born 31 March 1933) is a New Zealand mathematician who specialises in numerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations.