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James Wilkinson
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James Hardy Wilkinson
27 September 1919 Strood, England
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| Died | 5 October 1986 (aged 67) Teddington, England
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| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
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| Fields | Numerical analysis Numerical linear algebra |
| Institutions | National Physical Laboratory |
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
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- 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.
See also
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