Nick Trefethen

Nick Trefethen
Born
Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen

(1955-08-30) 30 August 1955 (age 69)[3][4]
Alma mater
Known forEmbree–Trefethen constant[5]
Spouses
Anne Trefethen (née Daman)
(m. 1988⁠–⁠2008)
Kate McLoughlin
(m. 2011)
Childrenone son, one daughter[3]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNumerical analysis
Institutions
ThesisWave Propagation and Stability for Finite Difference Schemes (1982)
Doctoral advisorJoseph E. Oliger[2]
Doctoral studentsAlan Edelman
Websitepeople.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen

Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen FRS[1] (born 30 August 1955) is an American mathematician, professor of numerical analysis and until 2023 head of the Numerical Analysis Group at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.[6][7][8][9]

  1. ^ a b "Certificate of candidature and election: Trefethen, Lloyd Nicholas, EC/2005/40". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014.
  2. ^ Nick Trefethen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ a b "TREFETHEN, Prof. Lloyd Nicholas, (Nick)". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "New directions in Numerical Computation, 25–28 August 2015: In Celebration of Nick Trefethen's 60th birthday". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015.
  5. ^ Embree, M.; Trefethen, L. N. (1999). "Growth and decay of random Fibonacci sequences" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 455 (1987): 2471. Bibcode:1999RSPSA.455.2471T. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.33.1658. doi:10.1098/rspa.1999.0412. S2CID 16404862.
  6. ^ Nick Trefethen's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Nick Trefethen publications indexed by Google Scholar
  8. ^ Lloyd N. Trefethen at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  9. ^ Nachtigal, N. L. M.; Reddy, S. C.; Trefethen, L. N. (1992). "How Fast are Nonsymmetric Matrix Iterations?". SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 13 (3): 778. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.210.62. doi:10.1137/0613049.