James H. Wilkinson

Jim Wilkinson
Jim Wilkinson with his Turing Award
Born
James Hardy Wilkinson

(1919-09-27)27 September 1919
Strood, England
Died5 October 1986(1986-10-05) (aged 67)
Teddington, England
NationalityEnglish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNumerical Analysis
Numerical linear algebra
InstitutionsNational Physical Laboratory[2]

James Hardy Wilkinson FRS[1] (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]

  1. ^ a b Fox, L. (1987). "James Hardy Wilkinson 27 September 1919-5 October 1986". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 33: 670–708. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1987.0024.
  2. ^ Wilkinson, J. H. (1961). "Error Analysis of Direct Methods of Matrix Inversion". Journal of the ACM. 8 (3): 281–330. doi:10.1145/321075.321076. hdl:10338.dmlcz/103862. S2CID 13076225.
  3. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "James H. Wilkinson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. ^ James H. Wilkinson author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  5. ^ James Hardy Wilkinson at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata

Developed by StudentB