SIAM News, June 2022 (Volume 55, Number 05) published this Obituary for Charles William Gear, who was chair of CICIAM (the predecessor of ICIAM) from 1991 to 1995. Reprinted here with permission from SIAM and the authors, Yannis Kevrekidis and Linda Petzold. Original article at https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/obituary-charles-william-gear.
Charles William Gear—known as Bill Gear to all—passed away on March 15, 2022, in Princeton, NJ. He was 87 years old. Bill was a larger-than-life figure whose research career spanned computer design and architecture as well as numerical analysis and...