Richard Steven Varga (October 9, 1928 - February 25, 2022)[1] was an American mathematician who specialized in numerical analysis and linear algebra.

[2] Varga served as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA).

Following the advice of Professor Max Morris at Case, Varga joined Harvard University for the master's degree and obtained an A.M. in mathematics.

Varga received his Ph.D. degree in 1954 with a dissertation Properties of a Special Set of Entire Functions and their Respective Partial Sums.

He is also known for advocating experimentation in mathematics, and for writing a monograph surveying his contributions on scientific computing to resolve open problems and conjectures.