Biography:David Matula
David William Matula (born 1937)[1] is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering.[2]
Education and career
Matula was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis,[2] graduating in 1959.[3] He completed his Ph.D. in 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Games of Sequence Prediction supervised by David Blackwell.[4]
After completing his Ph.D., he returned to Washington University in St. Louis as a faculty member. He joined the Southern Methodist University faculty in 1974 as chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department,[2] was named to the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering in 2016,[3] and retired in 2018.[2]
Book
Matula is the coauthor, with Peter Kornerup, of the book Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 133, Cambridge University Press, 2010).[5]
References
- ↑ Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-07-05
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "David W. Matula, Lyle School of Engineering 2018", SMU Retired Faculty (Southern Methodist University), https://sites.smu.edu/des/registrar/RetiredFaculty/?a=bio&pid=94&name=David%20Matula, retrieved 2021-07-05
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Curriculum vitae, February 2017, https://s2.smu.edu/~matula/Vita.pdf, retrieved 2021-07-05
- ↑ David Matula at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Reviews of Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic: Frédéric Goualard, MR2732337; T. C. Mohan, Zbl 1230.68008
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