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David William Matula (born 1937) is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering.

Education and career

Matula was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 1959. He completed his Ph.D. in 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Games of Sequence Prediction supervised by David Blackwell.

After completing his Ph.D., he returned to Washington University in St. Louis as a faculty member. He joined the Southern Methodist University faculty in 1974 as chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, was named to the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering in 2016, and retired in 2018.

Book

Matula is the coauthor, with Peter Kornerup, of the book Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 133, Cambridge University Press, 2010).

References

1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-07-05
2. ^ "David W. Matula, Lyle School of Engineering 2018", SMU Retired Faculty, Southern Methodist University, retrieved 2021-07-05
3. ^ Curriculum vitae (PDF), February 2017, retrieved 2021-07-05
4. David Matula at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. Reviews of Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic: Frédéric Goualard, MR2732337; T. C. Mohan, Zbl 1230.68008

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• Southern Methodist University faculty