Cleve Moler: key obituary facts
Is Cleve Moler dead? Yes. Cleve Moler died on May 20, 2026, at age 86.
Cause of death: Cleve Moler's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Cleve Moler known for?
He was an American mathematician specializing in numerical analysis (1939 - 2026).
More about Cleve Moler
Born: 17 August 1939.
Place of birth: Salt Lake City.
Gender: male.
Occupation: mathematician, programmer, engineer, university teacher, computer scientist.
Nationality: United States.
Education: California Institute of Technology, Stanford University.
Employer: University of New Mexico, University of Michigan, Stanford University.
Notable work: MATLAB.
Awards: Computer Pioneer Award, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, Sidney Fernbach Award, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo, honorary doctor of Linköping University.
Also known as: Cleve Barry Moler.
Known for: MATLAB.
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).