Prof. Gilbert Strang

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 taught at MIT. He has been a Sloan fellow and a Fairchild Fellow 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 six textbooks: Introduction to Linear Algebra (1993, 1998) Linear Algebra (1976, 1980, 1988) Introduction to Applied Mathematics (1986) Calculus (1991) Wavelets and Filter Banks, with Truong Nguyen (1996) Linear Algebra, Geodesy, and GPS, with Kai Borre (1997) He is the President of SIAM during 1999 and 2000.


Personal Homepage: math.mit.edu/~gs