Eduard Stiefel
Swiss mathematician (1909-1978) · Switzerland · On the map · Academics · Died at 69
Eduard L. Stiefel was a Swiss mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Magnus Hestenes, he invented the conjugate gradient method, and gave what is now understood to be a partial construction of the Stiefel-Whitney classes of a real vector bundle, thus co-founding the study of characteristic classes.
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Switzerland
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1909 to 1978 · aged 69
