MATHEMATICIAN

Cleve Moler

1939 - Today

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Cleve Barry Moler (born August 17, 1939) is an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He created MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cleve Moler has received more than 305,681 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cleve Moler is the 886th most popular mathematician (down from 806th in 2019), the 9,727th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,136th in 2019) and the 71st most popular American Mathematician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Cleve Moler ranks 886 out of 1,004. Before him are Philip Hall, Henri Padé, Paul Koebe, Avi Wigderson, Edward Charles Titchmarsh, and Norman Johnson. After him are Hellmuth Kneser, Hjalmar Mellin, Richard K. Guy, Mikhail Suslin, Poul Heegaard, and Robin Hartshorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Cleve Moler ranks 518. Before him are John Danielsen, Paride Tumburus, Svetlana Makarovič, Fernando Poe Jr., Erwin Teufel, and Józef Grudzień. After him are Oscar Calics, Wilhelm Bungert, Witold Woyda, Ramaz Urushadze, Paul Craig Roberts, and Henning Christophersen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cleve Moler ranks 9,727 out of 20,380. Before him are Roger Kingdom (1962), Billy Beane (1962), Norman Johnson (1930), Alison Sudol (1984), Tom Seaver (1944), and Steven R. Nagel (1946). After him are W. S. Merwin (1927), Neal H. Moritz (1959), John Hodiak (1914), Elmo Zumwalt (1920), Pam Shriver (1962), and David Koechner (1962).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Cleve Moler ranks 71. Before him are Marston Morse (1892), Richard Garfield (1963), Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924), Michael Aschbacher (1944), Barry Mazur (1937), and Norman Johnson (1930). After him are Robin Hartshorne (1938), Clifford Truesdell (1919), Adele Goldstine (1920), Phillip Griffiths (1938), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), and Robert Daniel Carmichael (1879).

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