Cleve Moler has died

Founders Cleve Moler, Chief Mathematician We are saddened to share that Cleve Moler passed away on May 20, 2026, at the age of 86 at his home surrounded by his family. Cleve was chief mathematician and cofounder of MathWorks and the author of the first version of MATLAB. In his early years, he was a professor of math and computer science for almost 20 years at the University of Michigan, Stanford ...