- James H. Wilkinson
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name = James Hardy Wilkinson
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birth_date = birth date|1919|9|27|mf=y
birth_place = flagicon|ENGStrood ,England
death_date = death date and age|1986|10|5|1919|9|27
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nationality = English
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field =Numerical Analysis
work_institution = National Physical Laboratory
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footnotes =James Hardy Wilkinson (
27 September ,1919 –5 October ,1986 ) was a prominent figure in the field ofnumerical analysis , a field at the boundary ofapplied mathematics andcomputer science particularly useful tophysics andengineering .Born in
Strood ,England , he studied atTrinity College, Cambridge , where he graduated top of the class. Taking up war work in 1940, he began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked withAlan Turing on the ACE computer project.Later, Wilkinson's interests took him into the numerical analysis field, where he discovered many significant
algorithm s.He 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 theJohn von Neumann Lecture at theSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics .The
J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software is named in his honour.ee also
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Wilkinson's polynomial External links and sources
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* James H. Wilkinson, "Turing's Work at the National Physical Laboratory and the Construction of Pilot ACE, DEUCE and ACE" (in Nicholas Metropolis, J. Howlett, Gian-Carlo Rota, (editors), "A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century",Academic Press , New York, 1980)
* [http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham/photos/wilkinson/wilkinson_021.htm Photo] of Wilkinson from Nick Higham's [http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~higham/photos/ archive]
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NAME= Wilkinson, James Hardy
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= English mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH=September 27 ,1919
PLACE OF BIRTH=Strood ,England
DATE OF DEATH=October 5 ,1986
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