Computational Science, Mathematics and Software Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Science in Celebration of the 65th Birthday of John R. Rice, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

John R. Rice was born in 1934 and received his Ph. D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1959. He came to Purdue University in 1964 as Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. His early work was mostly in mathematics, but it gradually shifted to scientific computing. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (1975-1993) and the citation for his 1994 election to the National Academy of Engineering was for "establishing and seminal contributions to the field of mathematical software." Rice taught courses at all levels, wrote eight textbooks for them and had 19 Ph.D. students; he was named a charter member of the Academy of Great Teachers of Purdue UniversityBoisvert, Ronald F. is the author of 'Computational Science, Mathematics and Software Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Science in Celebration of the 65th Birthday of John R. Rice, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA' with ISBN 9781557532503 and ISBN 1557532508.