Cleve Moler
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MATLAB and MathWorks. Moler helped write the LINPACK and EISPACK numerical libraries and in the late 1970s created MATLAB so his students at the University of New Mexico could use them without writing Fortran. The engineer Jack Little saw its value, rewrote it in C, and in 1984 the two founded MathWorks with Steve Bangert. MATLAB became standard in engineering teaching and industry. Moler died in May 2026.
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