Charles F. Van Loan

Charles Francis Van Loan (* around 1946 in New Jersey) is an American mathematician and computer scientist who deals with numerical linear algebra, specifically matrix calculations.

Van Loan studied at the University of Michigan with a bachelor 's degree in 1969, her Master's degree in 1970 and his doctorate at Cleve Moler 1973 on singular value decomposition ( Generalized Singular Values ​​with Algorithms and Applications). After post- doctoral research at the University of Manchester, he was a professor at Cornell University in 1975. 1999 to 2006 he stood in front of the computer science faculty. From 1998, he was Ford Professor.

He wrote with Gene Golub, a standard work on matrices computations.

Writings

• With Gene Golub Matrix Computations, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press 1996
• Thomas Coleman: Handbook for Matrix Computations, SIAM, 1988
• Computational Frameworks for the Fast Fourier Transform, SIAM, 1992
• Introduction to Computational Science and Mathematics, Jones and Bartlett, 1996
• Introduction to Scientific Computation: A Matrix -Vector Approach Using MATLAB, 2nd edition, Prentice- Hall 1999
• With K.-Y. Daisy Fan: Insight Through Computing: A MATLAB Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering, SIAM, 2009