George Forsythe

George Elmer Forsythe (8 de janeiro de 1917 — 9 de abril de 1972) foi um cientista da computação estadunidense.

George Forsythe
George Forsythe George Forsythe el 1937
Nascimento	George Elmer Forsythe 8 de janeiro de 1917 State College
Morte	9 de abril de 1972 (55 anos) Stanford
Sepultamento	cremação
Nacionalidade	estadunidense
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Cônjuge	Alexandra Illmer Forsythe
Filho(a)(s)	Diana E. Forsythe
Alma mater	Swarthmore College, Universidade Brown
Ocupação	matemático, cientista de computação, professor universitário
Prêmios	ACM Distinguished Service Award (1972)
Empregador(a)	Universidade Stanford, Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos, Boeing, Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles, Instituto Nacional de Padrões e Tecnologia, Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles, Instituto Courant de Ciências Matemáticas, Universidade Stanford
Orientador(a)(es/s)	William Feller, Jacob Tamarkin
Orientado(a)(s)	Richard Peirce Brent, John Alan George, Cleve Moler, Ramon Edgar Moore
Instituições	Universidade Stanford, Boeing, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Campo(s)	matemática, meteorologia, ciência da computação
Tese	1941: Riesz Summabilitly Methods of Order r, for R (r) < 0, Cesaro Summability of Independent Random Variables
Religião	Quaker
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Livros

• Dynamic Meteorology (with William Gustin and Jörgen Holmboy), John Wiley, New York, 1945, 375pp.
• Bibliography of Russian Mathematics Books, Chelsea, New York, 1956, 106 pp.
• Finite Difference Methods for Partial Differential Equations (with Wolfgang Wasow), John Wiley, New York, 1966, 444pp.
• Computer Solution of Linear Algebraic Systems (with Cleve B. Moler), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1967, 153 pp.
• Computer methods for mathematical computations (with Michael A. Malcolm and Cleve B. Moler), Prentice-Hall Series in Automatic Computation, Prentice-Hall., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1977. MR0458783 ISBN 0-13-165332-6 This book about numerical methods was partly finished when Forsythe died.

Ligações externas

• John J. O’Connor, Edmund F. Robertson: George Forsythe. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
• George Forsythe (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
• List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server
• Oral history interview with Alexandra Forsythe, Instituto Charles Babbage, University of Minnesota. Forsythe discusses the career of her husband, George Forsythe, and his founding and early years of the Stanford Computer Science Department.
• Oral history interview with Albert H. Bowker, Instituto Charles Babbage. Bowker discusses his role in the formation of the Stanford University computer science department, his hiring of George Forsythe in 1959, and the creation of a Division of Computer Science in 1963
• Oral history interview with John Herriot, Instituto Charles Babbage, University of Minnesota. Discusses the formation and development of the Stanford Computer Science Department, centering on the role of George Forsythe.