Education
George received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Alberta in 1964 and 1966 respectively, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1971. His doctoral thesis was entitled Computer Implementation of the Finite Element Method and his supervisor was George Forsythe.
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