Charles Van Loan

Charles Francis Van Loan (* around 1946 in New Jersey ) is an American mathematician and computer scientist who deals with numerical linear algebra, especially matrix calculations.

Van Loan studied at the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree in 1969, the master's degree in 1970 and doctorate in Cleve Moler 1973 on singular value decomposition (Generalized Singular Values with Algorithms and Applications). After post-doctoral studies at the University of Manchester , he became a professor at Cornell University in 1975 . From 1999 to 2006 he headed the computer science faculty. From 1998 he was a Ford professor. For 2018 he was selected as John von Neumann Lecturer .

He and Gene Golub wrote a standard work on matrix calculations.

Fonts

with Gene Golub Matrix Computations , 3rd Edition, Johns Hopkins University Press 1996
with Thomas Coleman: Handbook for Matrix Computations, SIAM, 1988
Computational Frameworks for the Fast Fourier Transform, SIAM, 1992
Introduction to Computational Science and Mathematics, Jones and Bartlett, 1996
Introduction to Scientific Computation: A Matrix-Vector Approach Using MATLAB, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall 1999
with K.-Y. Daisy Fan: Insight Through Computing: A MATLAB Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering, SIAM, 2009

personal data
SURNAME	Van Loan, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Van Loan, Charles Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Jersey