Gilbert Strang was an undergraduate at MIT and a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. His Ph.D. was from UCLA and since then he has taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan Fellow and a Fairchild Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College.

Professor Strang has published a monograph with George Fix, "An Analysis of the Finite Element Method", and 7 textbooks:

Introduction to Linear Algebra (1993,1998,2003,2008)
Linear Algebra and Its Applications (1976,1980,1988,2005)
Introduction to Applied Mathematics (1986)
Calculus (1991)
Wavelets and Filter Banks, with Truong Nguyen (1996)
Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS, with Kai Borre (1997)
Computational Science and Engineering (2007)

He was the President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000, and Chair of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics. He received the von Neumann Medal of the US Association for Computational Mechanics, and the Henrici Prize for applied analysis. The first Su Buchin Prize from the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Haimo Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, were awarded for his contributions to teaching around the world. His home page is math.mit.edu/~gs/ and his linear algebra lectures are on ocw.mit.edu (mathematics/18.06).

Gilbert Strang
Department of Mathematics
MIT Cambridge MA 02139
617 253 4383 fax: 617 253 4358
gs@math.mit.edu

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