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MATHEMATICIAN

Cleve Moler

1939 - Today

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Cleve Barry Moler 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 284,149 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Cleve Moler is the 809th most popular mathematician (down from 700th in 2019), the 9,155th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,055th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Cleve Moler ranks 809 out of 823Before him are Stanislav Smirnov, Marston Morse, Harish-Chandra, Ormond Stone, Anatoly Maltsev, and Horace Lamb. After him are Radhanath Sikdar, Barry Mazur, Mark Kac, Alexander Aitken, Heinz Prüfer, and Kenneth Appel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Cleve Moler ranks 463Before him are Vitali Davydov, R. D. Burman, Lee Trevino, Henning Christophersen, Sante Gaiardoni, and Oscar Calics. After him are Alexey Korneyev, Wilhelm Bungert, Don Williams, Robert A. M. Stern, Josef Černý, and Jose Maria Sison.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cleve Moler ranks 9,155 out of 18,182Before him are Jobyna Ralston (1899), James Morrison (1954), Mardy Fish (1981), Commodore Cochran (1902), Stipe Miocic (1982), and Mary Philbin (1902). After him are Bob Gibson (1935), Avril Haines (1969), Alvah Bessie (1904), Mildred Cohn (1913), Kathryn Stockett (1969), and Neil Abercrombie (1938).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Cleve Moler ranks 62Before him are Joseph Keller (1923), Marshall Harvey Stone (1903), Erna Schneider Hoover (1926), Garrett Birkhoff (1911), Marston Morse (1892), and Ormond Stone (1847). After him are Barry Mazur (1937), Kenneth Appel (1932), Elwyn Berlekamp (1940), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Norman Johnson (1930), and Martin David Kruskal (1925).