Awards & Winners

Gilbert Strang

Date of Birth 27-November-1934
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as William Gilbert Strang
Profession Mathematician, Professor
William Gilbert Strang, usually known as simply Gilbert Strang or Gil Strang, is an American mathematician, with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing seven mathematics textbooks and one monograph. Strang is the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches Introduction to Linear Algebra and Computational Science and Engineering and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.

Awards by Gilbert Strang

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gilbert Strang.

1977


Chauvenet Prize
(For his work, Piecewise Polynomials and the Finite Element Method.)