James H. Wilkinson

James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a British expert in the field of numerical analysis. His name is used for the "James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing" and "J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software" given by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Career
He transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing. Later, Wilkinson's interests took him into numerical analysis, where he discovered many great algorithms.
Selected works
  (REAP)
  (AEP)
 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

Other websites

 Photo of Wilkinson from Nicholas Higham's archive
 ADVANCES IN NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA: CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF JAMES H. WILKINSON, MAY 29-30, 2019 

Category:1919 births
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