Jim Wilkinson | |
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 Jim Wilkinson with his Turing Award | |
| Born | James Hardy Wilkinson 27 September 1919 Strood, England |
| Died | 5 October 1986 (aged 67) Teddington, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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| Fields | Numerical Analysis Numerical linear algebra |
| Institutions | National 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]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "James H. Wilkinson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ James H. Wilkinson author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
- ^ James Hardy Wilkinson at DBLP Bibliography Server
