Richard Peirce Brent
Ph.D. Stanford University 1971
Dissertation:
Algorithms for Finding Zeros and Extrema of Functions without Calculating Derivatives
Advisor 1: Gene Howard Golub
Advisor 2: George Elmer Forsythe
Student(s):
Click
here to see the students listed in chronological order.
| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Abbott | Australian National University | 1977 | |
| Fatima Abu Salem | University of Oxford | 2004 | |
| Zhou Bing Bing | Australian National University | 1989 | |
| Peter Fletcher | Australian National University | 1993 | |
| Andreas Griewank | Australian National University | 1980 | 6 |
| Wanli Ma | Australian National University | 2001 | |
| Paul Mackerras | Australian National University | 1988 | |
| Kevin Moore | Australian National University | 1997 | |
| Brian Murphy | Australian National University | 1999 | |
| M. Murshed | Australian National University | 1999 | |
| Colin Percival | University of Oxford | 2006 | |
| Philip Robertson | Australian National University | 1985 | |
| Daryel Sachse-Akerlind | Australian National University | 1983 | |
| Peter Strazdins | Australian National University | 1990 | |
| Andrew Tridgell | Australian National University | 1999 |
According to our current on-line database, Richard Brent has 15 students and 21 descendants.
We welcome any additional information.
If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form. To submit students of this mathematician, please use the new data form.