Gilbert Strand

Gilbert Strang, 2020

William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934 in Chicago ) is an American mathematician who contributed to the finite element method , calculus of variations, and wavelet analysis. He is also strongly committed to mathematics education, particularly through his six mathematics textbooks and a monograph .

Strang is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Career

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1966–1967)
Chauvenet Prize , Mathematical Association of America (1977)
Fairchild Scholar , California Institute of Technology (1980–1981)
Honorary Professor, Xian Jiaotong University, China (1980)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford University (1999)
Honorary Member, Irish Mathematical Society (2002)
Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2003)
Graduate School Teaching Award, MIT (2003)
In 2004/05 he was on the Abel Prize Committee .
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2009)
He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

President, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1999, 2000)
Professorship, US National Committee on Mathematics (2003-2004)
Professorship, National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Panel on Mathematics
Board of Directors - Member, International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM)
Abel Prize Committee (2003-2005)

with George J. Fix: An Analysis of the Finite Element Method. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ 1973, ISBN 0-13-032946-0 (monograph).
Linear Algebra and its Applications Academic Press, New York NY et al. 1976, ISBN 0-12-673650-2 (and more often: 1980, 1988, 2005).
Introduction to Applied Mathematics. Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Wellesley MA 1986, ISBN 0-9614088-0-4 .
Calculus. Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Wellesley MA 1991, ISBN 0-9614088-2-0 .
Introduction to Linear Algebra. Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Wellesley MA 1993, ISBN 0-9614088-5-5 (and more often: 1998, 2003, 2009; in German: Lineare Algebra. Springer, Berlin et al. 2003, ISBN 3-540-43949-8 ).
with Truong Nguyen: Wavelets and Filter Banks. Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Wellesley MA 1996, ISBN 0-9614088-7-1 .
with Kai Borre: Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS. Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Wellesley MA 1997, ISBN 0-9614088-6-3 .
Computational Science and Engineering. Wellesley-Cambridge Press, Wellesley MA 2007, ISBN 978-0-9614088-1-7 (In German: Wissenschaftliches Rechnen. Springer, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-540-78494-4 ).
Linear Algebra and Learning from Data. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2019, ISBN 978-0-692-19638-0 .

Interview in Joel Segel (Ed.): Recountings. Conversations with MIT mathematicians. AK Peters, Wellesley MA 2009, ISBN 978-1-568-81449-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Strand, Gilbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Strand, William Gilbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 27, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago