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Catching up with Chuck Johnson: an early innovator shares his insights and vision for the future...

Scientific Computing recently caught up with Charles "Chuck" W. Johnson, an early mathematics innovator, MIT alumni and Corporation Development Committee member, and founder of Visual Numerics (formerly IMSL). During our exchange, Chuck talked about his role in evolving mathematics and statistics into mainstream business analytics, as well as the profound changes the mathematics industry has seen over the past 50 years.

Q: How did you become interested in mathematics?

When I studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, mathematics was

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