Eugene Isaacson (1919–2008),[1] was a US mathematician who pioneered modern numerical analysis.
He was a mathematics and physics graduate of City College in New York, he then entered the graduate program in mathematics at New York University under the supervision of Kurt Otto Friedrichs, gaining a PhD on water waves on sloping beaches in 1949.
His book with Herbert Keller Analysis of Numerical Methods[3] was a leading textbook at the time.
He served as editor for Mathematics of Computation and the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis.
The contributors included his sons David and Eli Isaacson, also mathematicians, who wrote a paper together for this volume.