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Math Pioneer Cleve Moler, LINPACK Co-Creator, Dies at 86

6/25/2026

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Cleve Moler, a U.S. mathematician, died on May 20 at his Saint Michaels, Maryland home, aged 86.
His daughter Kathryn Moler said he died from Parkinson’s disease.
In the 1970s he co-developed FORTRAN libraries EISPACK and LINPACK, letting users run complex calculations without low-level code.
His tools enabled advances in finance and automobile design.
He taught mathematics and computer science at the University of New Mexico, noting student struggles with early computing.

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Cleve Moler, a U.S. mathematician, died on May 20 at his Saint Michaels, Maryland home, aged 86.
His daughter Kathryn Moler said he died from Parkinson’s disease.
In the 1970s he co-developed FORTRAN libraries EISPACK and LINPACK, letting users run complex calculations without low-level code.
His tools enabled advances in finance and automobile design.
He taught mathematics and computer science at the University of New Mexico, noting student struggles with early computing.