Nick Trefethen is Professor of Applied Mathematics in Residence
at Harvard University; during 1997-2023 he was Professor of
Numerical Analysis and head of the Numerical Analysis Group at the
University of Oxford.  He was educated at Harvard and Stanford
and held positions at NYU, MIT, and Cornell in earlier years.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the US National
Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences, and served during 2011-2012 as President of SIAM.
He has won many prizes including the Gold Medal of the Institute
for Mathematics and its Applications, the Naylor Prize of the London
Mathematical Society, and the Polya and von Neumann Prizes from SIAM.
He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Fribourg and
Stellenbosch University.

As an author Trefethen is known for his books including Numerical
Linear Algebra (1997), Spectral Methods in MATLAB (2000), Spectra and
Pseudospectra (2005), Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice
(2013/2019), Exploring ODEs (2018), and An Applied Mathematician's
Apology (2022).  He organized the SIAM 100-Dollar, 100-Digit Challenge
in 2002 and is the inventor of Chebfun and co-inventor
of the AAA algorithm for rational approximation.