Brian Ford (numerical analyst)
- Brian Ford (numerical analyst)
Dr Brian Ford OBE is a British Mathematician who founded, and until his retirement in 2004, was director of the Numerical Algorithms Group. Ford gained a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Nottingham University. The NAG (then Nottingham Algorithms Group) project began in 1970 as a collaborative venture, led by Ford, between the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxford, and the Atlas Computer Laboratory. In 1973 the project moved to Oxford and was renamed. Ford was awarded an OBE in 1989 in "recognition of outstanding services to British industry and research"
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* [http://www.nag.co.uk/about/fordbathdegree2.asp Citation for honorary degree at Bath]
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