Alston Scott Householder was an American mathematician who worked in mathematical biology and numerical analysis. He was born in Rockford, Illinois, on 5 May 1904 and died in Malibu, California, on 4 July 1993. He spent his childhood in Alabama, studied philosophy at Northwestern University, where he received his BA in 1925, and at Cornell University, where he received his MA in 1927. The University of Chicago awarded him a Ph.D. in 1937 for a thesis on the calculus of variations, and from 1937 he spent eight years on mathematical biology as a member of the Committee for Mathematical Biology at the University of Chicago.
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He then went to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he continued his study of philosophy, receiving his MA in 1927 .
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Alston Householder was an American mathematician who worked in mathematical biology and numerical analysis.
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Alston Householder was an American mathematician who worked in mathematical biology and numerical analysis.
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The ReLU was first used by Alston Householder in 1941 as a mathematical abstraction of biological neural networks.
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