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Gilbert Strang is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has made significant contributions to the fields of numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and linear algebra. He completed his Ph.D. at UCLA in 1959 under the supervision of Peter Henrici and has been a member of the MIT mathematics faculty since 1962, becoming a full professor in 1970. Strang’s influential textbooks, particularly in linear algebra and computational science, are widely used and his video lectures on MIT's OpenCourseWare have reached a large audience. He has served in various leadership roles within the academic community, including President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and Chair of the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics. Strang has received numerous awards recognizing his research contributions and teaching excellence, including the Chauvenet Prize and the Franklin Tepper Haimo Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has held several esteemed positions, including Honorary Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. In recognition of his contributions to mathematics and education, he has been honored by various organizations and was elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in December 2019.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Retired MathWorks Professor at MIT, having made significant contributions to numerical analysis and mathematics education.