death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality name field birth_date known_for prizes article_title birth_name alma_mater
5 october 1986 teddington , england national physical laboratory strood , england english jim wilkinson numerical analysis 27 september 1919 wilkinson matrix wilkinson 's polynomial chauvenet 1970 -rrb- frs -lrb- 1969 -rrb- prize -lrb- 1987 -rrb- acm turing award -lrb- james h. wilkinson
 james hardy wilkinson trinity college , cambridge
james h. wilkinson

james hardy wilkinson frs -lrb- 27 september 1919 -- 5 october 1986 -rrb- 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 .
