Cleve Moler, an American mathematician and computer programmer known for MATLAB and MathWorks, died on May 20, 2026, at age 86.
He specialized in numerical analysis and was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing, in the mid to late 1970s. Moler created MATLAB to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to those libraries without writing Fortran.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1961 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1965, both in mathematics, and later taught at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and the University of New Mexico.
Cleve Moler, 86, American mathematician and computer programmer (MATLAB, MathWorks).