Cleve Moler Dies at 86, Leaving Tools That Powered Computing for Millions

1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 11

Cleve Moler, the mathematician who helped make advanced computing usable for nonprogrammers, died May 20 at his home in Saint Michaels, Maryland, at 86.
Parkinson's disease caused his death, his daughter Kathryn Moler said.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Moler helped develop the FORTRAN libraries EISPACK and LINPACK, giving scientists standardized code shortcuts for complex calculations.
That work helped bridge an era when researchers still relied on punch cards and long waits for results, opening computing to fields including finance, auto design and medical imaging.