Keith Geddes

Canadian mathematician (born 1947)

Keith Oliver Geddes (born 1947) is a professor emeritus in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. He is a former director of the Symbolic Computation Group in the School of Computer Science.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Keith Geddes (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1948.¹

About

He received a BA in Mathematics at the University of Saskatchewan in 1968; he completed both his MSc and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Geddes is probably best known for co-founding the Maple computer algebra system, now in widespread academic use around the world. He is also the Scientific Director at the Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra, and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, as well as the American and Canadian Mathematical Societies.

From Wikipedia’s article on Keith Geddes, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Waterloo MapleFounder⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of Toronto³
Date not recordedUniversity of Saskatchewan³

Career

Occupation: university teacher, mathematician.⁶

Date not recordedWorked at University of Waterloo⁴
Date not recordedFounded Waterloo Maple⁵

Personal life

Born1948, North Battleford⁷
CitizenshipCanada⁸

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