| LC control no. | no2015004630 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Givens, Wallace, 1910-1993 |
| Variant(s) | Givens, James Wallace, Jr., 1910-1993 Givens, J. W. (James Wallace), 1910-1993 |
| Birth date | 19101214 |
| Death date | 19930305 |
| Place of birth | Alberene (Va.) |
| Place of death | Alameda (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | University of Tennessee, Knoxville Wayne State University Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Argonne National Laboratory Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians |
| Found in | Elementary divisors and some properties of the Lyapunov mapping X -> AX + XA*, 1961: title page (Wallace Givens, Professor of Mathematics and Engineering Sciences, Northwestern University; Consultant. Argonne National Laboratory) Numerical computation of the characteristic values of a real symmetric matrix, 1954: title page (Wallace Givens) Geometry of complex domains: a seminar conducted by Professors Oswald Veblen and John Von Neumann, 1935-36, first term lectures by Professor Veblen, second term lectures by J.W. Givens, 1937 Wikipedia, January 12, 2015 (Wallace Givens; James Wallace Givens, Jr. (December 14,1910-March 5,1993) was a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science; he is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations; born in Alberene, Virginia, he obtained his bachelor's degree from Lynchburg College in 1928, his master's degree from the University of Virginia in 1931 (after a one-year fellowship at the University of Kentucky), and his doctorate from Princeton University in 1936 (dissertation title: Tensor Coordinates of Linear Spaces); he was an assistant to Oswald Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study during his doctoral work, and later a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee; he also taught at Wayne State University and Northwestern University, and worked early on with UNIVAC I at the Courant Institute of New York University (NYU) and later with ORACLE at Oak Ridge (both early vacuum tube computers); in 1963 he was appointed senior scientist at the Argonne National Laboratories near Chicago, where he was later (1964-1970) director of the Division of Applied Mathematics; from 1968 to 1970 he was fourteenth president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; in 1979 he retired as professor emeritus at Northwestern University) ancestry.com, January 12, 2015 (James Wallace Givens; James W. Givens Jr.; James Wallace Givens Jr.; born December 14, 1910 in Alberene, Virginia; died March 5, 1993 in Alameda, California) |
| Associated language | eng |
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