William Kahan
William Morton Kahan | |
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Kahan in 2008 | |
| Born | June 5, 1933 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Education | University of Toronto (BS, MS, PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Gauss–Seidel Methods of Solving Large Systems of Linear Equations (1958) |
| Doctoral advisor | Byron Griffith |
| Doctoral students | James Demmel |
William "Velvel" Morton Kahan (born June 5, 1933) 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."