Magnus Hestenes

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Magnus Hestenes

Magnus Rudolph Hestenes (1906 – May 31, 1991) was an American mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Eduard Stiefel, he invented the conjugate gradient method.

Born in Bricelyn, Minnesota, Hestenes earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1932 under Gilbert Bliss. His dissertation was titled "Sufficient Conditions for the General Problem of Mayer with Variable End-Points." After teaching as an associate professor at Chicago, in 1947 he moved to a professorship at UCLA. He continued there until his retirement in 1973, and during that time he served as department chair from 1950-58. While a professor, Hestenes supervised the thesis research of 34 students, among them Glen Culler, Richard Tapia and Jesse Wilkins, Jr..

Hestenes received the Guggenheim (1954) and Fulbright awards, was a vice president of the American Mathematical Society, and was an invited speaker at the 1954 International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam.

External links

Magnus Hestenes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Obituary in the Numerical Analysis Digest

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 91726645 LCCN: n79100519 ISNI: 0000 0001 0924 3701 GND: 172136474 BNF: cb12349711j MGP: 6174

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Name	Hestenes, Magnus
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Short description	American mathematician
Date of birth	1906
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Date of death	May 31, 1991
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