Robert Charles Thompson (April 21, 1931 – December 10, 1995) was a Canadian-American mathematician, who gained an international reputation for his research on linear algebra and matrix theory.
[2] His Ph.D. thesis Commutators in the Special and General Linear Groups was supervised by Olga Taussky-Todd.
[3] In 1961 the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society published a paper based upon his thesis.
[2] He did important research on invariant factors, integral matrices, principal submatrices, and the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula.
In 1996 he was posthumously awarded the Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra of the ILAS.