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Feb 01, 1935 London 89 years old
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- William Gear (Charles William "Bill" Gear; born 1 February 1935, London) is a British-American mathematician, who specializes in numerical analysis and computer science. Gear studied at the University of Cambridge with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and an M.A.
- in 1960 and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with an M.S.
- in 1957 and a Ph.D.
- in 1960 under Abraham H.
- Taub with thesis Singular Shock Intersections in Plane Flow.
- From 1960 to 1962 he worked as an engineer for IBM.
- From 1962 to 1990 he was a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he was from 1985 to 1990 head of the computer science department.
- From 1992 to 2000 he was president of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton. From 1966 to 1971 he was a consultant at Argonne National Laboratory. Gear works on numerical analysis, computer graphics, and software development.
- He is known for the development of BDF methods (originally introduced by the chemists Charles Francis Curtiss and Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder in 1952), a multi-step method for solving stiff systems of differential equations.
- Gear first published on BDF methods in 1966. Since his retirement from NEC he has collaborated with Prof.
- Kevrekidis at Princeton on equation-free methods. Gear is an American citizen.
- He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the IEEE and the National Academy of Engineering.
- In 1987 he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
