Cleve Moler

Cleve Moler, 86, died on May 20, 2026. Cleve Moler was known publicly as an American mathematician and computer programmer. Cleve Barry Moler (August 17, 1939 – May 20, 2026) was an American mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He created MATLAB, a numerical computing package, to give his students at the University of New Mexico easy access to these libraries without writing Fortran. In 1984, he co-founded MathWorks with Jack Little to commercialize this program. Public biographical listings identify Moler as an American mathematician and computer programmer. This public record remains centered on Moler's work as an American mathematician and computer programmer and the documented milestones of that career.