Wallace Givens

James Wallace Givens, Jr. ( born December 14, 1910 in Alberene in Charlottesville, † March 5, 1993 ) was a mathematician and pioneer of computer science. According to him, the Givens rotation is named.

He received in 1928 at the age of 17 years his bachelor's degree from Lynchburg College and his master's degree in 1931 at the University of Virginia under Ben Zion Linfield (after a one-year scholarship to the University of Kentucky ). He was assistant to Oswald Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, where he received his doctorate in 1936 with a thesis on Tensor Coordinates of Linear Spaces.

Givens taught at Cornell University, University of Tennessee, Wayne State University and Northwestern University and worked with early UNIVAC I at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and later with Oracle computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 1963 he was a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, where he later ( 1964-1970 ) Director of the Department of Applied Mathematics was. From 1968 to 1970 he was the fourteenth president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ). In 1974 he received the Humboldt Research Award. In 1979 he retired from Northwestern University to retire back.

Writings

  • Numerical computation of the characteristic values ​​of a real symmetric matrix. Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Comp. , Oak Ridge, 1954.

Swell

  • Pool, James CT: James Wallace Givens, Jr. ( 1910-1993 ). Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 41, Issue 1, pp. 29-30, 1994.
  • Numerical analysts ( 20th century)
  • Computer scientist
  • Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Americans
  • Born 1910
  • Died in 1993
  • Man
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