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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.
James H. Wilkinson was an English mathematician and winner of the 1970 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science. Wilkinson is recognized as one of the greatest pioneers in numerical analysis, particularly numerical linear algebra. At age 16 Wilkinson won a mathematics scholarship.
James Hardy Wilkinson. Quick Info. Born. 27 September 1919. Strood, Kent, England. Died. 5 October 1986. Teddington, Middlesex, England. Summary. Jim Wilkinson was an English mathematician who worked in numerical analysis. View two larger pictures. Biography.
The James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing is awarded every four years by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
James (Jim) Hardy Wilkinson was a British mathematician who became the leading expert in a new, and important, field that emerged after World War II. It goes under two names, matrix computations and (more pompously) numerical linear algebra .
The James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software is awarded every four years to honor outstanding contributions in the field of numerical software. The award is named to commemorate the outstanding contributions of James H. Wilkinson in the same field.
James Hardy Wilkinson 27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986 by Sven Hammarling (2019). Celebrating James Hardy Wilkinson by Sven Hammarling and Nicholas J. Higham, Mathematics Today (2019). Obituary. Dr James Hardy Wilkinson, FRS, FIMA, IMA Bulletin, pages 76-77, March/April 1987.
