George Forsythe (1917-1972)
1. For an account of George Forsythe's life (written by Don Knuth), see:" George Forsythe and the Development of Computer Science " (by Donald E. Knuth). Communications of the ACM, Vol 15, No. 8, p. 721-726.
This paper includes a full listing of all Forsythe's books, papers, and doctoral students.
2. For a discussion of George Forsythe's contributions to Stanford, see:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/ICME/docs/history/ForsytheG.pdf
3. To get a sense of Forsythe's vision and its effect on the world, see:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/ForsytheNews.html
4. An obituary for George Forsythe also appeared in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 2 (unnumbered pages for article written by A.S. Householder)
5. George Forsythe's mathematical family tree:
http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=4319