James H. Wilkinson
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Jim Wilkinson with his Turing Award | |
| Born | James Hardy Wilkinson 27 September 1919 Strood, England |
| Died | 5 October 1986 (aged 67) Teddington, England |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA) |
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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 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.