Nick Trefethen selected honors

  • First customer to buy MATLAB
  • Royal Society, National Academy of Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea
  • President of SIAM
  • Fellow of SIAM and AMS
  • IMA Gold Medal, LMS Naylor Prize, SIAM Pólya Prize
  • SIAM John von Neumann Prize
  • Invited speaker at ICIAM, ICM, and ECM congresses
  • Author of SIAM's all-time bestseller
  • Winner of teaching prizes at MIT, Cornell and Oxford
  • Winner of the first Fox Prize in Numerical Analysis
  • Junior Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude at Harvard
  • NSF Fellow, Hertz Fellow, and Presidential Young Investigator
  • European Research Council Advanced Grant
  • Honorary doctorates from Fribourg and Stellenbosch
  • Inventor of Chebfun, co-inventor of the AAA algorithm

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