David Matula

David William Matula (born 1937)[1] is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering.[2]

Education and career

Matula was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis,[2] graduating in 1959.[3] He completed his Ph.D. in 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Games of Sequence Prediction supervised by David Blackwell.[4]

After completing his Ph.D., he returned to Washington University in St. Louis as a faculty member. He joined the Southern Methodist University faculty in 1974 as chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department,[2] was named to the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering in 2016,[3] and retired in 2018.[2]

Book

Matula is the coauthor, with Peter Kornerup, of the book Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 133, Cambridge University Press, 2010).[5]

References
  1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-07-05
  2. "David W. Matula, Lyle School of Engineering 2018", SMU Retired Faculty, Southern Methodist University, retrieved 2021-07-05
  3. Curriculum vitae (PDF), February 2017, retrieved 2021-07-05
  4. David Matula at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Reviews of Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic: Frédéric Goualard, MR2732337; T. C. Mohan, Zbl 1230.68008
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