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{{short description|British-American mathematician (born 1935)}}
'''C. William Gear''' (Charles William "Bill" Gear; born 1 February 1935, [[London]])<ref>biographical information from ''American Men and Women of Science.'' Thomson Gale, 2004</ref> is a British-American mathematician, who specializes in numerical analysis and computer science. Gear is an American citizen.
Gear studied at the [[University of Cambridge]] with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and an M.A. in 1960 and at the [[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]] with an M.S. in 1957 and a Ph.D. in 1960 under [[Abraham H. Taub]] with thesis ''Singular Shock Intersections in Plane Flow''.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=24924}}</ref> From 1960 to 1962 he worked as an engineer for [[IBM]]. From 1962 to 1990 he was a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he was from 1985 to 1990 head of the computer science department. From 1992<ref>{{cite web|title=NEC Research Institute: An Industrial Lab with a Basic Mission|date=16 December 1998|website=SIAM News|url=https://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=898|access-date=7 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415221520/https://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=898|archive-date=15 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> to 2000 he was president of the NEC Research Institute in Princeton.
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Since his retirement from NEC he has collaborated with Prof. Kevrekidis at Princeton on ''equation-free methods''.
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==Selected works==
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