Carl Engelman (October 21, 1929 – November 26, 1983) was an American

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. Carl is best known as the creator of MATHLAB. He was employed by

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and

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. He was a visiting professor at the

University of Turin The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...

through a grant provided by

National Research Council (Italy) The National Research Council (Italian: ''Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR'') is the largest research council in Italy. As a public organisation, its remit is to support scientific and technological research. Its headquarters are in Rome. ...

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