Biography:Gene H. Golub
Gene H. Golub | |
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 Gene Golub in 2007 | |
| Born | February 29, 1932 Chicago , Illinois, US |
| Died | November 16, 2007 (aged 75) Stanford, California, US |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Abraham Taub |
| Doctoral students | Richard P. Brent Michael Heath Dianne O'Leary Michael Overton Michael Saunders Margaret H. Wright |
Gene Howard Golub (February 29, 1932 – November 16, 2007), was an American numerical analyst who taught at Stanford University as Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and held a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering.
Personal life
Born in Chicago , he was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, receiving his B.S. (1953), M.A. (1954) and Ph.D. (1959) all in mathematics.[1] His M.A. degree was more specifically in Mathematical Statistics. His PhD dissertation was entitled "The Use of Chebyshev Matrix Polynomials in the Iterative Solution of Linear Equations Compared to the Method of Successive Overrelaxation" and his thesis adviser was Abraham Taub. Gene Golub succumbed to acute myeloid leukemia on the morning of 16 November 2007 at the Stanford Hospital.[2]
Stanford University
He arrived at Stanford in 1962 and became a professor there in 1970. He advised more than thirty doctoral students, many of whom have themselves achieved distinction. Gene Golub was an important figure in numerical analysis and pivotal to creating the NA-Net and the NA-Digest, as well as the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[3]
One of his best-known books is Matrix Computations,[4] co-authored with Charles F. Van Loan. He was a major contributor to algorithms for matrix decompositions. In particular he published an algorithm together with William Kahan in 1970 that made the computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) feasible and that is still used today. A survey of his work was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press as "Milestones in Matrix Computation".[5]
Recognition
Golub was awarded the B. Bolzano Gold Medal for Merits in the Field of Mathematical Sciences and was one of the few elected to three national academies: the National Academy of Sciences (1993), the National Academy of Engineering (1990), and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994). He was also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1986).
He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[6] He held 11 honorary doctorates and was scheduled to receive an honorary doctorate from ETH Zürich on November 17, 2007. He was a visiting professor at Princeton (1970), MIT (1979), ETH (1974 & 2002), and Oxford (1982, 1998 & 2007).
Gene Golub served as the president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) from 1985 to 1987 and was founding editor of both the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC) and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).
Most of Golub's research work was collaborative. He had at least 181 distinct co-authors[7] and the number may still increase as co-authored papers keep appearing posthumously.
Selected publications
Articles
- Golub, Gene H. (1962). "Bounds for eigenvalues of tridiagonal symmetric matrices computed by the LR method". Mathematics of Computation 16 (80): 438. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1962-0163430-6.
- Golub, Gene H. (1965). "Numerical methods for solving linear least squares problems". Numerische Mathematik 7 (3): 206–216. doi:10.1007/BF01436075.
- Golub, Gene H.; Welsch, John H. (1969). "Calculation of Gauss quadrature rules". Mathematics of Computation 23 (106): 221. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-69-99647-1.
- Golub, G. H.; Reinsch, C. (1971). "Singular Value Decomposition and Least Squares Solutions". Linear Algebra. pp. 134–151. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-39778-7_10. ISBN 978-3-662-38854-9.
- Golub, Gene H. (1973). "Some Modified Matrix Eigenvalue Problems". SIAM Review 15 (2): 318–334. doi:10.1137/1015032.
- Golub, G. H.; Pereyra, V. (1973). "The Differentiation of Pseudo-Inverses and Nonlinear Least Squares Problems Whose Variables Separate". SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 10 (2): 413–432. doi:10.1137/0710036. Bibcode: 1973SJNA...10..413G.
- Björck, Åke; Golub, Gene H. (1973). "Numerical methods for computing angles between linear subspaces". Mathematics of Computation 27 (123): 579. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1973-0348991-3.
- Gill, P. E.; Golub, G. H.; Murray, W.; Saunders, M. A. (1974). "Methods for modifying matrix factorizations". Mathematics of Computation 28 (126): 505. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1974-0343558-6.
- Fischer, D.; Golub, G.; Hald, O.; Leiva, C.; Widlund, O. (1974). "On Fourier-Toeplitz methods for separable elliptic problems". Mathematics of Computation 28 (126): 349. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1974-0415995-2.
- Golub, Gene H.; Heath, Michael; Wahba, Grace (1979). "Generalized Cross-Validation as a Method for Choosing a Good Ridge Parameter". Technometrics 21 (2): 215–223. doi:10.1080/00401706.1979.10489751.
- Golub, Gene H.; Van Loan, Charles F. (1980). "An Analysis of the Total Least Squares Problem". SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 17 (6): 883–893. doi:10.1137/0717073. Bibcode: 1980SJNA...17..883G.
- Boley, Daniel; Golub, Gene H. (1984). "A modified method for reconstructing periodic Jacobi matrices". Mathematics of Computation 42 (165): 143. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1984-0725989-1.
- Elman, Howard C.; Golub, Gene H. (1990). "Iterative methods for cyclically reduced nonselfadjoint linear systems". Mathematics of Computation 54 (190): 671. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1990-1011442-X. Bibcode: 1990MaCom..54..671E.
- Fischer, Bernd; Golub, Gene H. (1991). "On generating polynomials which are orthogonal over several intervals". Mathematics of Computation 56 (194): 711. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1991-1068818-5. Bibcode: 1991MaCom..56..711F.
- Elman, Howard C.; Golub, Gene H. (1991). "Iterative methods for cyclically reduced nonselfadjoint linear systems. II". Mathematics of Computation 56 (193): 215. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-1991-1052093-1. Bibcode: 1991MaCom..56..215E.
- Golub, Gene H.; Meurant, Gérard (1994). "Matrices, Moments and Quadrature". In: David F. Griffiths, G. Alistair Watson (eds.): Numerical analysis 1993. Proceedings of the 15th Dundee Conference, June–July 1993. Pitman Research Notes in Mathematics Series. vol. 303. Harlow: Longman Scientific & Technical. pp. 105–156. ISBN 0-582-22568-X.
- Chan, Tony F.; Golub, Gene H.; Mulet, Pep (1999). "A Nonlinear Primal-Dual Method for Total Variation-Based Image Restoration". SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 20 (6): 1964–1977. doi:10.1137/S1064827596299767. Bibcode: 1999SJSC...20.1964C.
- Calvetti, D.; Golub, G. H.; Gragg, W. B.; Reichel, L. (2000). "Computation of Gauss-Kronrod quadrature rules". Mathematics of Computation 69 (231): 1035–1053. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-00-01174-1. Bibcode: 2000MaCom..69.1035C.
- Kamvar, Sepandar D.; Haveliwala, Taher H.; Manning, Christopher D.; Golub, Gene H. (2003). "Extrapolation methods for accelerating Page Rank computations". Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '03. p. 261. doi:10.1145/775152.775190. ISBN 1581136803.
- Bai, Zhong-Zhi; Golub, Gene H.; Ng, Michael K. (2003). "Hermitian and Skew-Hermitian Splitting Methods for Non-Hermitian Positive Definite Linear Systems". SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 24 (3): 603–626. doi:10.1137/S0895479801395458.
- Alter, Orly; Golub, Gene H. (2004). "Integrative analysis of genome-scale data by using pseudoinverse projection predicts novel correlation between DNA replication and RNA transcription". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (47): 16577–16582. doi:10.1073/pnas.0406767101. PMID 15545604. Bibcode: 2004PNAS..10116577A.
- Alter, Orly; Golub, Gene H. (2005). "Reconstructing the pathways of a cellular system from genome-scale signals by using matrix and tensor computations". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (49): 17559–17564. doi:10.1073/pnas.0509033102. PMID 16314560. Bibcode: 2005PNAS..10217559A.
- Benzi, Michele; Golub, Gene H.; Liesen, Jörg (2005). "Numerical solution of saddle point problems". Acta Numerica 14: 1–137. doi:10.1017/S0962492904000212. Bibcode: 2005AcNum..14....1B.
- Alter, Orly; Golub, Gene H. (2006). "Singular value decomposition of genome-scale mRNA lengths distribution reveals asymmetry in RNA gel electrophoresis band broadening". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (32): 11828–11833. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604756103. PMID 16877539. Bibcode: 2006PNAS..10311828A.
- Omberg, Larsson; Golub, Gene H.; Alter, Orly (2007). "A tensor higher-order singular value decomposition for integrative analysis of DNA microarray data from different studies". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (47): 18371–18376. doi:10.1073/pnas.0709146104. PMID 18003902. Bibcode: 2007PNAS..10418371O.
- Bai, Zhong-Zhi; Golub, Gene H.; Li, Chi-Kwong (2007). "Convergence properties of preconditioned Hermitian and skew-Hermitian splitting methods for non-Hermitian positive semidefinite matrices". Mathematics of Computation 76 (257): 287–299. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-06-01892-8. Bibcode: 2007MaCom..76..287B.
Books
- with Charles Van Loan: Matrix Computations (= Johns Hopkins Series in the Mathematical Sciences. 3). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 1983, ISBN 0-8018-3010-9; 2nd edition 1989; 3rd edition 1996; 4th edition 2013[8]
- Studies in Numerical Analysis. Mathematical Association of America, 1985, 426 pages.
- with James M. Ortega: Scientific Computing and Differential Equations. An Introduction to Numerical Methods. Academic Press, Boston MA etc. 1992, ISBN 0-12-289255-0.[9]
- with James M. Ortega: Scientific Computing: An Introduction with Parallel Computing. Academic Press, 1993; 2014 pbk reprint
- with Moody T. Chu: Inverse Eigenvalue problems. Theory, algorithms, and applications. Oxford University Press, Oxford etc. 2005, ISBN 0-19-856664-6.
- Milestones in Matrix Computation: The Selected Works of Gene H. Golub with Commentaries. Oxford University Press, 2007.[10]
- with Gérard Meurant: Matrices, Moments and Quadrature with Applications. Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN 1-4008-3388-4
References
- ↑ Chen Greif, Gene H. Golub Biography, Online at Oxford University Press [1], accessed 24 November 2007
- ↑ Moler, Cleve (2007-11-16), Gene Golub, 1932 - 2007, NA Digest, http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/07/v07n47.html#1, retrieved 2007-11-17
- ↑ Trefethen, Lloyd N. (2007), "Obituary: Gene H. Golub (1932–2007)", Nature 450 (7172): 962, doi:10.1038/450962a, PMID 18075573, Bibcode: 2007Natur.450..962T.
- ↑ Golub, Gene H.; van Loan, Charles F. (1996), Matrix Computations (3rd ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-5414-9
- ↑ Chan, Raymond; Greif, Chen; O'Leary, Dianne (2007), Milestones in Matrix Computation: The selected works of Gene H. Golub with commentaries, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-920681-0
- ↑ Thomson ISI, Golub, Gene H., ISI Highly Cited Researchers, http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?id=2509&cb=23, retrieved 2007-11-17
- ↑ {{Citation |title=Co-authors of "Golub, Gene Howard" |access-date=2011-10-06 |url=https://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/authors.html?coauth=74940&extend=1
- ↑ Adams, Loyce M. (March 2014). "Featured Review: Matrix Computations. Fourth Edition by Gene H. Golub, Charles F. Van Loan". SIAM Review 56 (1): 189–191. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24248458.
- ↑ Young, David M. (1993). "Book Review: Scientific computing and differential equations—An introduction to numerical methods". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 28 (2): 397–399. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1993-00371-9.
- ↑ "Review of Milestones in Matrix Computation: The Selected Works of Gene H. Golub with Commentaries". 1 October 2011. https://euro-math-soc.eu/review/milestones-matrix-computation-selected-works-gene-h-golub-commentaries.
External links
- Home page at Stanford University
- Gene H. Golub at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Oral history interviews with Gene H. Golub, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Interview by Pamela McCorduck, 16 May 1979 and 8 June 1979, Stanford, California.
- Gene Golub, Oral history interview by Thomas Haigh, 22–23 October 2005, Stanford University. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA, six-hour interview covers full career - transcript online.
- Gene Golub in pictures around the world.
- Gene Golub Papers
- "Because of space limitations... Master bibliography of matrix computation (pdf, 565 Kbytes, 66 pages) is online" from 4th edition (2013) of "Matrix computations": [2]
- Dianne P. O'Leary, "Gene H. Golub", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2018)
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