Charles Royal Johnson | |
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Born | Elkhart, Indiana, United States | January 28, 1948
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Northwestern University, California Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Matrices whose hermitian part is positive definite (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Olga Taussky Todd |
Charles Royal Johnson (born January 28, 1948) is an American mathematician specializing in linear algebra. He was a Class of 1961 professor of mathematics at College of William and Mary.[1] The books Matrix Analysis and Topics in Matrix Analysis, co-written by him with Roger Horn, are standard texts in advanced linear algebra.[2][3][4]