Cleve Moler
American mathematician specializing in numerical analysis (1939 - 2026) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 86
Cleve Barry Moler was an American mathematician and computer programmer who specialized in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing.
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He created MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. In 1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program.
