Claim: Wallace Givens, a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science well-known as the eponym of Givens rotations, was an assistant to Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Evidence: James Wallace Givens, Jr. (1910 December 14 – 1993 March 5) was a mathematician and a pioneer in computer science. He is the eponym of the well-known Givens rotations. He was an assistant to Veblen at the Institute for Advanced Study during his doctoral work, and later a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.