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
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbott, James | Australian National University | 1977 | |
| Griewank, Andreas | Australian National University | 1980 | 67 |
| Sachse-Akerlind, Daryel | Australian National University | 1983 | |
| Robertson, Philip | Australian National University | 1985 | |
| Mackerras, Paul | Australian National University | 1988 | |
| Bing Bing, Zhou | Australian National University | 1989 | 2 |
| Strazdins, Peter | Australian National University | 1990 | |
| Fletcher, Peter | Australian National University | 1993 | |
| Moore, Kevin | Australian National University | 1997 | |
| Murphy, Brian | Australian National University | 1999 | |
| Murshed, M. | Australian National University | 1999 | |
| Tridgell, Andrew | Australian National University | 1999 | |
| Ma, Wanli | Australian National University | 2001 | |
| Abu Salem, Fatima | University of Oxford | 2004 | |
| Percival, Colin | University of Oxford | 2006 | |
| Lui, Yuan | University of Oxford | 2008 | |
| Arndt, Jörg | Australian National University | 2010 | |
| Bai, Shi | Australian National University | 2012 | 3 |
| Aycock, Christopher | University of Oxford | 2013 | |
| Subramanya Rao, Srinivasa | Australian National University | 2017 | |
| Skerritt, Matthew | University of Newcastle | 2020 |
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