Bill Schelter
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William Frederick Schelter (born 1947[1], died July 30, 2001) was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer. Schelter is credited with the development of GNU Common Lisp (gcl) implementation of Common Lisp and the GPL'd version of the computer algebra system Macsyma called GNU Maxima. He is also credited with the first port of the GNU C compiler to the INTEL 386 architecture, used in the original implementation of the Linux kernel [1].
Schelter obtained his Ph.D. at McGill University in 1972. His mathematical specialties were noncommutative ring theory and computational algebra and its applications, including automated theorem proving in geometry.
In the summer of 2001, age 54, he died suddenly of a heart attack while traveling in Russia.
[edit] References
- S. Chou and W. Schelter. Proving Geometry Theorems with Rewrite Rules Journal of Automated Reasoning, 1986.
[edit] Notes
- ^ In memoriam. Access in 2007-07-05.
[edit] External links
- Bill Schelter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Maxima homepage. Maxima is now available under GPL.
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| NAME | Schelter, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schelter, Bill |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and programmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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