Comments on: Remembering Gene Golub, 1932 – 2007 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/12/11/remembering-gene-golub-1932-2007/ Loren Shure works on design of the MATLAB language at MathWorks. She writes here about once a week on MATLAB programming and related topics. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim Davis http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/12/11/remembering-gene-golub-1932-2007/#comment-23146 Tim Davis Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:36:52 +0000 http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/12/11/remembering-gene-golub-1932-2007/#comment-23146 Gene invited me to do a sabbatical at Stanford in 2002-2003. He was a good friend, and I miss him. He would often ask about my kids, and would bring them coins from his many travels. His impact on the field was tremendous, but more than that: he was a good friend of many, and a father figure in more ways than one. You can read comments, and leave your own, at a memorial blog: http://genehgolub.blogspot.com/ . What is stunning to read there (209 comments as of Dec 12) is how wide an impact he made on so many people. I wrote him a poem to say goodbye: Baruch Dayan Ha'emet is a Jewish blessing said when hearing of a loved one's death ("blessed is the true judge"). <i> My words, they fail to do their part, to touch the feelings of my heart. Yet I shall try; goodbye, dear Gene, My heart is sad, my loss is keen. Baruch Dayan Ha'emet, in justice dwells our God, and yet, his mercy deep and ever pure, is our true hope, our anchor sure. </i> Goodbye, "doc svd". Gene invited me to do a sabbatical at Stanford in 2002-2003. He was a good friend, and I miss him. He would often ask about my kids, and would bring them coins from his many travels. His impact on the field was tremendous, but more than that: he was a good friend of many, and a father figure in more ways than one.

You can read comments, and leave your own, at a memorial blog: http://genehgolub.blogspot.com/ . What is stunning to read there (209 comments as of Dec 12) is how wide an impact he made on so many people. I wrote him a poem to say goodbye: Baruch Dayan Ha’emet is a Jewish blessing said when hearing of a loved one’s death (“blessed is the true judge”).

My words, they fail to do their part,
to touch the feelings of my heart.
Yet I shall try; goodbye, dear Gene,
My heart is sad, my loss is keen.

Baruch Dayan Ha’emet,
in justice dwells our God, and yet,
his mercy deep and ever pure,
is our true hope, our anchor sure.

Goodbye, “doc svd”.

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