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William Kahan

Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)

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    Born 1933
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-21

William "Velvel" Morton Kahan is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, who is a professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He received the Turing Award in 1989 for "his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis."

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