Awarded Chauvenet Prize (1987).
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James H. Wilkinson
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS 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. In 1970 he won the ACM Turing Award.
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science · English mathematician and computer scientist · mathematician · computer scientist · also James H. Wilkinson, James Hardy Wilkinson, Jim Wilkinson, J. H. WIlkinson, James Wilkinson, J. Wilkinson
Born 27 September 1919 · Died 5 October 1986 · Q62877
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1987· 2 entries
Wilkinson won the Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America, for his paper "The Perfidious Polynomial"
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1986· 1 entry
Died 1986-10-05.
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1974· 1 entry
For his pioneering work in computer science
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Heriot-Watt University (1973).
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1970· 3 entries
Awarded John von Neumann Prize (1970).
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Awarded Turing Award (1970).
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"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
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1969).
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1940· 1 entry
Began working on ballistics but transferred to the National Physical Laboratory in 1946, where he worked with Alan Turing on the ACE computer project
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1939· 1 entry
Studied at Trinity College (1935–1939).
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1935· 1 entry
Studied at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School (1930–1935).
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-09-27.
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