History

George Forsythe (1917-1972)

  1. For an account of George Forsythe's life (written by Don Knuth), see:
    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:
  3. To get a sense of Forsythe's vision and its effect on the world, see:
  4. An obituary for George Forsythe also appeared in PDF icon  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