| Hestenes
played an essential role in building the UCLA mathematics department and had
an outstanding research carrier. During his tenure at Chicago and UCLA, he
supervised the thesis research of 34 students. His best known works include many publications on the problem of Bolza, a famous paper on quadratic forms in Hilbert space and the conjugate gradient paper with Stiefel. Hestenes remained scientifically active until his death in 1991, concentrating in his later years on the method of multipliers and continuing to write and publish. |
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