George Elmer Forsythe | |
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| Born | January 8, 1917 |
| Died | April 9, 1972 (aged 55) Stanford, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Swarthmore College Brown University |
| Spouse | Alexandra Illmer Forsythe |
| Children | Diana E. Forsythe |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, meteorology and computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University Boeing National Bureau of Standards |
| Doctoral advisor | William Feller Jacob Tamarkin |
| Doctoral students | Richard Brent J. Alan George Cleve Moler Beresford Parlett |
George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972[1]) was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst who founded and led Stanford University's Computer Science Department.[1]
Forsythe came to Stanford in the Mathematics Department in 1959, and served as professor and chairman of the Computer Science department from 1965 until his death.[2] He served as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), coauthored four books on computer science and a fifth on meteorology, and edited more than 75 other books on computer science.
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2016. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Davis, Paul (January 8, 1998). "Remembering George Forsythe (commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Forsythe's death, minisymposium at SIAM's 45 Anniversary Meeting at Stanford University)". SIAM News, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.