Mark Embree is professor of computational and
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at
Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg, Virginia. Until 2013, he was a professor of computational and applied mathematics at
Rice University in
Houston, Texas
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Mark Embree was awarded Man of the Year and Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences at
Virginia Tech in 1996. He was also a
Rhodes Scholar
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at the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctorate.
Early life
Mark Embree attended
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
Research
His main research interests are
Krylov subspace methods,
non-normal operators and
spectral perturbation theory,
Toeplitz matrices, random
matrices, and
damped wave operators.
Books
Dr Mark Embree wrote a book with
Lloyd N. Trefethen
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Education
Trefethen was born 30 August 19 ...
titled
Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Operators''
See also
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Embree–Trefethen constant
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External links
Dr. Embree's Virginia Tech HomepageDr. Embree's Rice HomepageDr. Embree's Mathematical Genealogy
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References
20th-century American mathematicians
American Rhodes Scholars
Rice University faculty
Virginia Tech alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American mathematicians
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology alumni
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