James H. Wilkinson

Jim Wilkinson
Jim Wilkinson with his Turing Award
Born
James Hardy Wilkinson

(1919-09-27)27 September 1919
Strood, England
Died5 October 1986(1986-10-05) (aged 67)
Teddington, England
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge (BA)
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNumerical Analysis
Numerical linear algebra
InstitutionsNational 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.