Person: Cheney, Ward

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Ward Cheney was an American mathematician who was one of the pioneers in the fields of approximation theory and numerical analysis.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 28 June 1929, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 13 July 2016, Austin, Texas, USA.

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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive