Eduard Stiefel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss mathematician (1909-1978)
Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1909
Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Date of Death: 25-Nov-1978
Profession: mathematician, university teacher
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Eduard Stiefel
- Eduard L.
- Stiefel (21 April 1909 – 25 November 1978) was a Swiss mathematician.
- Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Magnus Hestenes, he invented the conjugate gradient method, and gave what is now understood to be a partial construction of the Stiefel–Whitney classes of a real vector bundle, thus co-founding the study of characteristic classes.
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