Gene H. Golub
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Professor Gene Howard Golub (b. 1932 February 29 in Chicago, Illinois, USA), Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science (and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering) at Stanford University, is one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. He was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving his B.S. (1953), M.A. (1954), and Ph.D. (1959) all in the field of Mathematics. (For the M.A., the degree was more specifically in Mathematical Statistics.) He has been at Stanford since 1962, and has advised almost thirty doctoral students, many of whom have themselves achieved distinction.
He was awarded the B. Bolzano Gold Medal for Merits in the Field of Mathematical Sciences, and chosen as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1993).
One of his best-known books is Matrix Computations, 3/e (ISBN 978-0-8018-5414-9), co-authored with Charles F. Van Loan, and he is recognized as a major contributor to algorithms for matrix decompositions, such as the singular value decomposition (SVD).
