James H. Wilkinson
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| Born | James Hardy Wilkinson 27 September 1919 Strood, England |
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| Nationality | English |
| Fields | Numerical Analysis |
| Institutions | National Physical Laboratory[1] |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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James Hardy Wilkinson FRS[2] (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.[3][4][5]
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Education
Born in Strood, England, he attended the Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester. He studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Senior Wrangler.[6]
Career
Taking up war work in 1940, he began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory[1] in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing on the ACE[7] computer project. Later, Wilkinson's interests took him into the numerical analysis field, where he discovered many significant algorithms.
Awards and honours
Wilkinson received the Turing Award in 1970 "for his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations in linear algebra and 'backward' error analysis." In the same year, he also gave the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) John von Neumann Lecture.
The J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software is named in his honour.
Personal life
Wilkinson married Heather Ware in 1945. She and their son survived him, a daughter having predeceased him.
Selected works
- Rounding errors in algebraic processes. 1963; Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem. 1965, Oxford University Press
- with Christian Reinsch: Handbook for Automatic Computation, Volume II, Linear Algebra, Springer-Verlag, 1971
- The Perfidious Polynomial. In: Studies in Numerical Analysis, pp. 1–28, MAA Stud. Math., 24, Math. Assoc. America, Washington, DC, 1984
References
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- ↑ James H. Wilkinson from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
- ↑ James H. Wilkinson's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
- ↑ "Easily at the top of the First Class", from the MacTutor biography.
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External links
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- 1919 births
- 1986 deaths
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- British computer scientists
- Turing Award laureates
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Fellows of the British Computer Society
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- People from Strood
- People educated at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School
- Senior Wranglers
