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Nationality
  
English

Name
  
James Wilkinson


Role
  
Computer engineer

Fields
  
Numerical analysis

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Born
  
James Hardy Wilkinson 27 September 1919 Strood, England (
1919-09-27
)

Institutions
  
National Physical Laboratory

Alma mater
  
Trinity College, Cambridge

Known for
  
Wilkinson matrix Wilkinson's polynomial

Died
  
October 5, 1986, Teddington, United Kingdom

Education
  
Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School, Trinity College, Cambridge

Awards
  
Turing Award, Chauvenet Prize

Notable awards
  
Chauvenet Prize (1987), Turing Award (1970), Royal Society (1969)

Books
  
The algebraic eigenvalu, Rounding Errors in Algebraic, Linear algebra

James h wilkinson


James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (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.

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Education

Born in Strood, England, he attended the Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester. He studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Senior Wrangler.

Career

Taking up war work in 1940, he began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing on the ACE computer project. Later, Wilkinson's interests took him into the numerical analysis field, where he discovered many significant algorithms.

Awards and honours

Wilkinson received the Turing Award in 1970 "for his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations in linear algebra and 'backward' error analysis." In the same year, he also gave the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) John von Neumann Lecture.

Wilkinson also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1973.

The J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software is named in his honour.

Personal life

Wilkinson married Heather Ware in 1945. She and their son survived him, a daughter having predeceased him.

Selected works

  • Wilkinson, James Hardy (1963). Rounding Errors in Algebraic Processes (1 ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 9780486679990. MR 161456.  (REAP)
  • Wilkinson, James Hardy (1965). The Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem. Monographs on Numerical Analysis (1 ed.). Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press. Retrieved 2016-02-11.  (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

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