David M. Young, Jr.

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David M. Young, Jr. (born October 20, 1923) is the Ashbel Smith Emeritus Professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. He has many publications but is best known for methods of preconditioning large linear systems in order to solve them numerically, and in particular the successive overrelaxation (SOR) and symmetric successive overrelaxation (SSOR) methods of preconditioning.[1]

Young earned a bachelor's degree in 1944 from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1950 from Harvard University under the supervision of Garrett Birkhoff.[2] He began his academic career at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was the first to teach a computer programming course, focused mainly on numerical analysis.[3] He joined the University of Texas in 1958.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was honored by the Association for Computing Machinery in 1990 for his outstanding contributions to computer science. The book Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems (David R. Kincaid and Linda J. Hayes, eds., Academic Press, 1990) records 17 lectures presented at a conference held in honor of his 65th birthday at the University of Texas in 1988, and a special issue of the Journal of Linear Algebra and Its Applications was dedicated in honor of his 70th birthday.[1] The Fourth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, held at the University of Texas in October 1998, was dedicated to Young in honor of his 75th birthday. In 2000, a symposium at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico honored the 50th anniversary of Young's publication of the SOR method.[4]

[edit] Books

  • Iterative Solution of Large Linear Systems, Academic Press, 1971
  • Applied Iterative Methods (with Louis A. Hageman), Academic Press, 1981.
  • A Survey of Numerical Mathematics (with Robert Todd Gregory), Dover, 1988.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Axelsson, Owe & Kuznetsov, Yuri A. (1995), “Editorial”, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications 2 (5): 399, DOI 10.1002/nla.1680020502 .
  2. ^ David Young, Jr. at the website of the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Minker, Jack (2004), Beginning of computing and computer science at Maryland, <http://www.cs.umd.edu/department/dept-history/minker-report.pdf> .
  4. ^ David M. Young honored, UTCS spotlights, Computer Science Dept., U. Texas.

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